Yahya's Minion

I've posted recently about the infamous Harun Yahya, and now it seems that one of his worshippers is following this blog and leaving comments in defense of his idol. Jamshed Kunnoth is his name, and here is his blog, which is essentially a Harun Yahya link farm. I've no problem with creationists leaving spam in the comments section (see these other examples). This actually helps me out by increasing the amount of creationist idiocy on the site. So thanks Jamshed.

Anyways, I was checking out Jamshed's blog and, as you'd expect, it has some truly nutty content. Take this post for example, classic creationist paranoia about a worldwide "Darwinist conspiracy" and the "intellectual mafia". This part caught my eye:

[This global Darwinist mafia] bans books opposed to evolution

Well they're not doing a very good job of it! The last time I went to a bookstore, the science section had a frustratingly large number of books on intelligent design, like Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe and Icons of Evolution by Jonathan Wells. I know that, technically, the subject of these books is evolution, but they are pure creationist propaganda masquerading as bona fide science. The only thing that stopped me from complaining to the store manager (aside from my wife) was the fact that the bibles and korans in the neighboring aisle were sharing shelf space with books on the occult, astrology, mysticism and witchcraft. At least they got something right.

And while we're on the subject of bannings, guess who persuaded the Turkish government to block access to Richard Dawkins' website?

Strangely, Jamshed's blog has links to Creationist Idiocy, as well as to other anti-creationism blogs like Pharyngula and The Sensuous Curmudgeon. Is this purely in the spirit of fairness and debate, or is Jamshed in fact a spoof? Jamshed?

UPDATE: As you can see, he's already replied below (ALL CAPS). And he's just put up a new post on his blog, which is his funniest ever. I still can't tell if he's the real deal or not. Go read his new post, decide for yourself, and vote in the poll at the top right.

UPDATE 2: Here's how people voted:

Jamshed: Real or Spoof?

Real - 1 (Is this you, Jamshed?)
Spoof - 3
I can't tell - 6

Harun Yahya's Dream Recording Device

Harun Yahya, author of the lengthy creationist tome The Atlas of Creation, is starting to seem like a parody of a creationist with his vilification of Richard Dawkins, but even I admit that this is pretty funny.

Conscious Atoms, Confused Bees and the Evil Face of Richard Dawkins

I've quit my other blog to concentrate on this one, partly because there is just so much creationist stupidity out there. Take this page for example. It's by creationism's Turkish Titan Harun Yahya, and there's enough comedy gold on this single webpage alone to keep this blog going for the rest of the year. The theme is "What Darwinists Never Realize", and you often really have to wonder what point he's trying to make. Example:

Darwinists never realize that the atoms they claim gave rise to all life on Earth are in fact unconscious entities.

What, he thinks that evolution requires atoms to talk to each other and to organize themselves into DNA via a little committee meeting?

Darwinists never realize that the theory of evolution, a fictitious hypothesis put forward under the primitive 19th-century understanding of science, has not been confirmed by any scientific findings or experiments so far.

Fictitious hypothesis? And the 19th century's understanding of science was at least more advanced than the Koran.

In claiming that life emerged as the result of blind chance, Darwinists never realize that the odds of a single, average-sized protein molecule forming by chance are 1 in 10300.

Uh-oh, I think he missed a superscript somewhere...

Darwinists never realize how it is possible for the queen bee, whose brain is just a few cubic millimeters in size and consists of very simple nerve nodes, to understand of her own will and with her own intelligence for what purpose the comb cells are built and to lay the appropriate eggs, with no confusion ever arising.

Lack of confusion in bees = death of darwinism? Seriously?

Elsewhere on the site he's posted some scary looking photos of Richard Dawkins in what appears to be an effort to demonize the guy. But what looks scarier? This:



Or this:


Cast your vote in the poll on the right!

EDIT: In a remarkably close contest, Harun Yahya's spooky visage wins by 16 votes to 11.

Harun Yahya

I just stumbled across Harun Yahya, a self-proclaimed "prominent Turkish intellectual" who runs several anti-evolution websites. Needless to say, the sites are chock-full of lies, misinformation, misquotations and references to scripture. But what staggered me the most is how much the guy loves photos of himself. Check out his snazzy white suit and shades. And if those aren't enough, here's even more!!

According to Wikipedia, he's as slimy and nasty as he looks...