I've found my new favourite book in the world.

Very recently the chemistry department, and perhaps others, at my University was sent several copies of the first volume of the "Atlas of Creation".  One was given to the professor leading my group and I managed to salvage it before he had it thrown out.  Written by an Adnan Oktar (nom de plume Harun Yahya), it is a gloriously chunky book - just under A3 size I would say - and it's premise is that it will use the fossil record to disprove evolution and instill the reader with confidence that the world was created by God, helped by quotes from the Qur'an.

I've not had a proper chance to read it but a brief flick through yields the following highlights:

• The bulk of the book consists pages upon pages of fossil pictures with commentary to explain where they were found, what they are etc. etc.  This is of course to prove that it's SCIENCE^TM.  I read one of the comments to discover that it said something like "These tree fossils are the same as trees that we see today.  Therefore plants have not undergone evolution.  Evolution is teh suxxor".  I'm paraphrasing slightly
• A mention of Behe.  Nuff said.
• All the written arguments are contained in several chapters in the back of the book.  From the chapter headings alone it looks like a veritable sweet shop of logical fallacies and tired old "Darwinism leads to WAR AND DEATH RAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!".

Honestly I think people should pick this up and use it as an atheist primer.  Here are all the creationist arguments you'll ever need to bat down in one easy volume!!!

I'm going to read it over the next couple of days, just to fulfill my own perverse interest, and I'll see if I can find anything more horrifyingly ridiculous than this caption I just found under a picture of the two towers being attacked:

"No matter what ideology they might espouse, those who perpetrate terror all over the world are, in reality, Darwinists.  Darwinism is the only philosophy that places a value on - and thus encourages - conflict"

M