The Atlas of Creation revisited

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Cover of the Atlas of Creation, Volume ICover of the Atlas of Creation, Volume 1
I received a copy of the Atlas of Creation over a year ago, and I wrote about it then. That led to a spike in visits, to this blog, many of them from Turkey. After a few weeks, the interest died down. The page continued to have a high rank in Google searches for "Atlas of Creation", at least for awhile, and it's continued to receive visits off and on ever since.

Yesterday I noticed that visits were spiking again -- 42 visits to that page in one day. 3 came as a result of searches for "atlas of creation",1 but all of the rest came via referrals from sozluk.sourtimes.org. According to Wikipedia, sourtimes is "one of the biggest internet communities in Turkey with over 150,000 users." The page responsible for all of the referrals is this one. The link to my page is in entry #8.

I don't read Turkish, so I can't tell what they're saying about me (or even if they're saying anything about me). If anyone from sourtimes finds this entry and wonders what I think about the Atlas. The reaction that Kevin Padian reports sums it up pretty well.

He said people who had received copies were "just astounded at its size and production values and equally astonished at what a load of crap it is." (my emphasis)

1My page still comes up just after the Wikipedia entry on Adnan Oktar, the "author" of Atlas of Creation in a Google search.

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Hi! I came by your website through my Google Alerts for "Harun Yahya". I'm a native speaker of Turkish who is not related to that web page you mention. Here is the translation:

It has been mentioned in the famed Science magazine.
At the end of the article you can read what professors –those who have had it without requesting- are doing with this Atlas.

For pictures of the book: http://darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/...6/the_atlas_of_cr.html. Notice that this author has also mentioned the copyright problem.

Thanks for the translation. When I went back to that link, I discovered that the images weren't displaying any more. They're fixed now in case anyone follows the link.

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