Readers of this blog know of our interest in Islamic creationism and its leading spokesman, Adnan Oktar (pseudonym: Harun Yahya), interviewed here last June. Over at Science and Religion News, Salman Hameed has been posting comprehensive updates to this story including articles by himself and others. Hameed, an astronomer and assistant professor of science and humanities at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, is working on creationism in today’s Islamic world and how Muslims see science and religion.
(Photo: Harun Yahya, 21 May 2008/Osman Orsal)
Hameed’s blog is a kind of one-stop shop for anyone interested in this topic. Since he’s posted several items in recent weeks, here’s a quick index:
- Internet and the spread of Islamic Creationism, with a link to Martin Riexinger’s article Propagating Islamic Creationism on the Internet.
- Harun Yahya and the arts, with a link to Nathan Schneider’s article Harun Yahya’s Dark Arts — (subheader: One-on-one with the Turkish creationist who uses bad science and bizarre art to spread his vision of a troubled world).
- Science paper on Islamic Creationism, with a helpful link to his article Bracing For Islamic Creationism that was published in Science but is blocked to non-subscribers.
- Interview with New Scientist on Islamic
Creationism, with a link to the text in New Scientist. - Ghamidi on Islam and evolution — this is interesting because it shows that Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, a leading Pakistani Islamic scholar often classified as a modernist, also rejects the Darwinist theory of common descent. He seems to subscribe to a kind of theistic evolution that rules out common descent. Hameed includes a YouTube interview with Ghamidi with a summary because it’s in Urdu.
- Talking about “origins” in Pakistan, with link to a local report in The News.
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Harun Yahya (Mr. Adnan Oktar) is totally right in all his explanations about the evolution deceit and the dark implications of Social Darwinism.
What Europe faced throughout the 20th century was the result of this evil understanding that the world is only available for the strongest who survive and superior races will dominate the inferior ones.
How did Hitlers, Stalins, Mussolinis were bred in this century? Of course through this Darwinist indoctrination.
We are all responsible for removing this racist, elitist, fight oriented ideology from our lives, minds, schools and governments. Otherwise, we should expect new wars, fights, holocausts soon.
- Posted by Munir SonayI think, Adnan Oktar is a estimable man. I like his book and I belive his opinion
- Posted by jackIf evolution is right the evolution process must be happened till now. If the life form changed from dead things, it must be happened till now. something unlife is changing to life creature.
- Posted by humanoid