Atlas of Creation by Harun Yahya
January 9, 2008I am insanely jealous of Ainsley, who now owns the Atlas of Creation. Most of the book is juxtapositions of bad pictures of fossils with bad pictures of conordinal living things (fossil fern, living fern; fossil bunny, living bunny; fossil fly, living fly) alongside the erroneous claim that there are no differences between the extinct and extant forms. Anyway, here’s his example of a living caddisfly:
It’s a fishing lure. He stole the image from Graham Owen, from whom he also stole this:
…which he believes is a living spider. A few pages earlier, he juxtaposes a fossil scolytid with a living pentatomid, saying that the living pentatomid and the 25 myo scolytid are exactly the same thing.
Make sure you click through and look at Graham Owen’s fishing lures, they’re worth it. My fave is the solpugid.
Those aren’t fishing lures, they’re art.
‘Twas Satan’s lure that hooked him! Argh!
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Well, thanks to a thief, Graham Owen suddenly gets a wider exposure. Amazing work.
Seriously..
Lawsuit. The U.S. IP laws are ridiculously strong.
Sue that bastard. This is beyond being merely tragic and funny.
Speaking as one who has pursued the wily trout in many a high, cold stream and has rigged I don’t now how many hooks and lures to fool those worthy denizens of the watery world, I can only say that this idiot never wet a line in his life and therefore has no idea what the hell he is talking about.
Ignore him.
Speaking as one who has pursued the wily trout in many a high, cold stream and has rigged I don’t now how many hooks and lures to fool those worthy denizens of the watery world, I can only say that this idiot never wet a line in his life and therefore has no idea what the hell he is talking about.
Ignore him. Better yet, challenge him to a fish off.
Sorry. Unexpected web behavior. I swear I didn’t post twice.
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this “Atlas of Creation” seems a very interesting book…
Who is Harun Yahya ?
Harun Yahya is the Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar, who heads an obscenely rich and somewhat mafious creationist organization (and apparently thinks he needs a pseudonym).
His “Atlas of Creation” is famous for containing things like a juxtaposition of a 160-million-year-old salamander fossil (complete skeleton, with tail; photo ripped from somewhere online) and a modern frog (photo ripped from somewhere online) with a text to the effect of “ZOMG look how this 280-million-year-old frog is absolutely identical to the modern frog!!!1! This proves evilution is false and what the Qur’an says about creation is true!!!1! Qur’an WINZ0R!!!eleventyone!” And this over and over and over again for hundreds of pages.
Here is more on Oktar and his now forbidden organization.
harun yahya..?
wow,the fishing lures were quite eye catching to me and neat, it’s a shame, you can obviousely see the hooks.
Harun Yahya is also the reason why wordpress.com has been banned in Turkey for more than 3 months now. Apparently someone had a blog bashing Harun Yahya’s dubious character and questionable religious sect so HY sued wordpress.com and had it blocked in Turkey. Way to go jerk!
Thanks for scanning this, Steve! If it is okay, I will blog about your blog on my blog, resulting in some kind of entomological nerdsplosion.
Man, those lures are incredible! What kind of fish would go after a solpugid, though? (let alone one made of “jungle cock.”
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You can actually see his whole book on-line. This page includes the two images above and many more similar images.
http://www.harunyahya.com/books/darwinism/atlas_creation/atlas_creation_03c.php
Note how good ole Harun has placed his “HY” watermark on the images he used on-line.
Islamic Creationists are a fairly new beast, getting their momentum from our own home-grown Young Earth Creationists. Have a read of this for more info:
http://paralleldivergence.com/2007/04/28/creation-museum-madness/
He can do such ludicrous pseudoscientific joke and instead of getting booed, attained fame. It’s a miracle in its own right.
Perhaps he’s God?
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While I can’t figure out how anyone can believe the fairy tale of evolution the use of a tied fly to simulate a real caddis makes his book hard to believe.
I do know that creation is real. Maybe you believe that monkeys still give birth to mutations that are called humans but it never happened and never will. The guy who thought that one up must have hated his ancestors.
Who is this Harun Yahya gentleman?
Insert joke about hook line and sinker here.
Creationists stealing (and re-copyrighting and watermarking!) pictures, Intelligent Design stealing and re-narrating computer animations. S’crazy stuff…
@mobe
nobody said monkey gave birth to human being.
Those flies are gorgeous, I am loving Owens’ site.
I’m now going to have a read of this ‘Atlas of Creationism’ - should provide me with some laughs.
And Mobey - that’s not how evolution works, go and read up on it before dismissing it out of hand.
I can’t find the offending pictures in the pdf download version of the book. Have they been removed or am I looking in the wrong place?
Steve,
I can’t thank you enough for finding my bugs in publication. I really didn’t know what to think at first, came as such a surprise, but I thought you may be interested to know that I contacted a copyright lawyer and sent a letter to the author of the book. For some reason I doubt a reply will be immediately forthcoming. I took today off work and stayed home creating realistic flies, houseflies…
False Caster, the caddisfly is on page 244 of the printed version, the “spider” is on page 241, and the scolytid/pentatomid is on 237.
Aren’t fishing lures a clear example of Intelligent Design?
Well, then!
Thanks, stevelew but it’s the pdf copy that I have and these page numbers don’t match up. I would dearly love to run this story in the UK fishing magazine I write for but I’d like to see the evidence in the pdf file with my own eyes first. That’s what made me wonder if the author has already removed the offending images.
My boss is a professor in Genetics and he was sent a copy of “Atlas of Creation” (which is HUGE, by the way, and not your average mass market hardcover - it must cost a fortune to publish) to review. I think the cover letter said something to the effect of “Since you are an esteemed scientist, please have a complimentary copy of this super scientific book. We would greatly appreciate your comments!” Needless to say, we didn’t even dignify the author with a response. Crazy stuff, though.
False Caster, the image is on page 246 of the first pdf in the zipped folder that I just downloaded a minute ago from the link in the post, the spider is on 243, and the scolytid and pentatomid are on 239.
@ Shirley Wu
…how big?
Some confidence on the letter, though.
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