Could Darwin Have Caused 9/11 and Terrorism?

Creationism Makes Strange Bedfellows

When Evolution Attacks? (AP) America’s Evangelicals may have a scored a most unlikely ally in their crusade for creationism! Over the last fortnight, thousands of schools across France have been mysteriously receiving copies of a “lavishly illustrated” Turkish book attacking Darwinism. Titled The Atlas of Creation, the 768-page, large-print tomes attempt not only to debunk Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, but also to paint it as “the true source of terrorism.” French education officials were baffled by the question of the book’s source, but emphasized that such teachings “have no place in our schools.”

More mysterious than the source or the reasoning, perhaps, may be the book’s author, Harun Yahya. Some claim that’s the pen name of “a reclusive Islamic teacher named Adnan Oktar,” while others think it is more likely a consortium of fundamentalist authors. Either way, “Atlas” seemingly blames “survival of the fittest” for just about everything from racism and Nazism, to communism and terrorism, because of its ties to atheism and materialism (speaking of which). Unlike many American Evangelicals though, the author or authors acknowledge that earth may be more than a few thousand years old. But since these two groups have seen eye-to-eye so infrequently over the years, perhaps they can look to this text as a source of inspiration in their battle against progressive seculars. After all, isn’t the enemy of my enemy my friend?> http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2007/02/did_darwin_cause_the_911_terro.html