The Atlas of Creation
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| Author | Harun Yahya |
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| Country | Turkey |
| Language | Turkish |
| Subject | Creationism |
| Publisher | Global Yayıncılık |
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Publication date
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2006 |
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| Pages | 870 |
| Followed by | The Atlas of Creation Volume 2 |
The Atlas of Creation (or, in Turkish, Yaratılış Atlası) is a series of creationist books written by Adnan Oktar under the pen name Harun Yahya. Oktar published volume 1 of The Atlas of Creation with Global Publishing, Istanbul, Turkey in October 2006, volumes 2 and 3 followed in 2007, and volume 4 in 2012. The first volume is over 800 pages long. The Turkish original was translated into English, German, Chinese, French, Dutch, Italian, Urdu, Hindi and Russian.
Copies of the book were mailed to schools in the United States and Europe. The book was widely panned by reviewers for its inaccuracy, unauthorized use of copyrighted photographs, and intellectual dishonesty.
The books argue that life forms on Earth have never undergone even the slightest change and have never developed into one another. The book shows pictures of million-year-old fossils and pictures of modern-day animals that are claimed to be their modern equivalent. Thus, the book suggests that living things are exactly the same today as they were hundreds of millions of years ago. In other words, they never underwent evolution but were created by God.
In 2007 tens of thousands of copies of the book were given to schools, prominent researchers and research institutes throughout the United States and Europe, including to a large number of French, Belgian, Spanish and Swiss schools. Some of the schools that received copies were in France as well as prominent researchers at Utrecht University, University of Tilburg, University of California, Brown University, University of Colorado, University of Chicago, Brigham Young University, Stony Brook University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Georgia, Imperial College London, Abertay University, the University of Idaho, the University of Vermont, and several others. When the book was sent to French schools and universities, controversy resulted and the book sparked further concern about Islamic radicalism in France.
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