Creationist Corner.

 A few weeks ago, I picked up a few books to read, the good Bill Hicks biography and as it was 2 for a quid a book on Creationism from a guy called Harun Yahya, complete with someones wedding photos stuffed in the pages, (this is why it was bought initially.)

The biography was good, and pretty much told me all I needed to know about one of the best comedians ever. Darwinism refuted however...

Let's get this over with, I fully believe in evolution, materialism and that the universe is unimaginably old. No, I do not know where life came from or how the universe began, I just know it doesn't have a designer, or that things are irreducibly complex.

That over, I will say, this book is a boring, shallow and contradictory pile of garbage I have had the displeasure to read. It's one differing feature being that Allah is the creator rather than the Christian God is new, but the arguments are the same. 

There is the eye and bacterium flagellum being held up as the pinnacle of irreducible complexity.

The old Junkyard 747 reconstruction hypothesis is given a run out. And in some magical serendipity IFM is playing Scrapyard by Tangerine Dream in the background. More on serendipity later.

We're spared anything on strata, focusing on various animals that have stayed the same despite millions of years without a shred of irony that they too have evolved. I quote from an old Digitizer video I saw, but it boils down to this: You are a crab, your daddy was a crab before you, hence you will always be a crab.

Finally we have the secret bit at the back, explaining that Allah dun it all. With quotes from the Quran to back up his "evidence" just like what Christians do with the Bible.

My favourite quote is that we are all shadows in a world where only Allah is real, which just reminds me of the Plato's Cave argument, rewritten by an Islamic apologist. 

Finally as we always have a few books on the go we have the current issue of Fortean Times open when finishing it off and there is an update about a certain Adnan Oktar, cult leader, sex trafficker and all round weirdo. Wiki has him sentenced to 9000 years in jail, whereas FT puts it at the much more modest 1000. That's a millennium in prison, and a Turkish prison at that. 

Oh and if you are wondering what is the link between the two. Harun Yahya is of course Adnan's pen name, which he pumped out a string of awful creationist literature, some of it aimed at kids.