Scientific Illustration

The “Atlas of Creation” is a book by Turkish creationist Harun Yahya (the pen name of Adnan Oktar) it purports to show that fossils are identical to living creatures and so evolution hasn’t happened or something. This book is riddled with bizarre errors for example in the image above, a Fossil crinoid, is shown with recent sabellid fan worms that are presented as being identical even though they don’t even belong to the same phylum (Echinodermata & Annelida respectively).

This image comes from an excellent paper outlining some of Harun Yahya’s errors:

Taxonomy alive and kicking: or how taxonomy can help debunking creationist thinking. Thierry Backeljau, Kurt Jordaens, Antonio M. de Frias Martins. AÇOREANA, 2011, Suplemento 7: 241-291 (Pdf)

If anyone is feeling industrious translating this papers into Turkish would a good thing to do!

See also:

The evolution of Harun Yahya’s “Atlas of Creation”

The Skulls That Make Harun Yahya Look Like a Bonehead 

petitcabinetdecuriosites:

Folio from a Mu’nis al-Abrar fi Deqa’iq al-Ash’ar; top: The Moon and Fish; bottom: Twelve different birds in 2 registers (via Arts of the Islamic World | Folio from a Mu’nis al-Abrar fi Deqa’iq al-Ash’ar; top: The Moon and Fish; bottom: Twelve different birds in 2 registers | F1946.14)

(via dendroica)

collective-history:

The Timbuktu Manuscripts showing both mathematics and astronomy, a heritage of Astronomy in medieval Islam.

“The Ahmed Baba centre has been digitizing hundreds of texts in order to preserve the knowledge they carry and to share it online. Many intellectuals both in Mali and abroad are now worried about the fate of manuscripts which might not be considered in line with Islamic law by the militants”

Mali Islamists announce plans to keep destroying Timbuktu

Timbuktu’s Sidi Yahia mosque ‘attacked by Mali militants’

(via collectivehistory)