THE INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC-CREATIONISM ALLIANCE Science Research Foundation. Inspired by the books and writings of Harun Yahya (see next link).
Harun Yahya International. Islamic creationism
Islamic Scientific Creationism: A New Challenge in Turkey. Links between Harun Yahya and ICR's Gish and Morris.
SRF (Science Research Foundation) Conferences US and Islamic creationists working together.
Mustafa Akyol (Turkish creationist) testifies in Kansas "Monkey Trial". See the next link.
Why Muslims Should Support Intelligent Design, By Mustafa Akyol. He supports Harun Yahya. Exerpts:
[C]ontemporary Muslim intellectuals like Harun Yahya put great emphasis on the case against materialism and its main pillar, Darwinism.[snip]
And recently they [intellectual Christians] have initiated a bold movement — a “wedge” as they call it — to split the foundations of materialism.
This “wedge” is the code name for the Intelligent Design Movement, formed in the early 1990s by Christian scientists and intellectuals. The leader of the movement is Phillip E. Johnson, a prominent professor of law from the University of California, Berkeley. During a sabbatical year in London in 1987, Dr. Johnson read about Darwinism and noticed that Darwinian ideologues like Richard Dawkins use deceptive arguments to sell their unsubstantiated story. He decided to dedicate the rest of life to unravel this sophisticated fallacy. His first book, Darwin on Trial (1991), annoyed the Darwinist establishment terribly, but it was just a beginning. In the following years, serious scientists like Michael Behe from Lehigh University, William Dembski from Baylor University, and Paul Nelson from the University of Chicago joined the ranks of the movement.
Today the movement, headed by the Discovery Institute in Seattle and the Intelligent Design Network in Kansas, is leading a great battle first to free school textbooks and then the whole of society from the Darwinist dogma and the materialist philosophy it supports.
Intelligent Design (ID) is a term that implies creation. The universe and life are not products of blind forces of nature, ID holds, but show evidence that they were designed by an intelligence. The ID Movement has deliberately chosen not to specify the identity of the Designer. Through science you can demonstrate convincingly that there is a designer, but you can’t go further without invoking theology. Everybody has the right to believe in a Designer according his own theology. What makes the movement effective is its emphasis on solid scientific evidence.
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Muslims should also note the great similarity between the arguments of the Intelligent Design Movement and Islamic sources. Hundreds of verses in the Qur’an call people to examine the natural world and see in it the evidence of God. Great Islamic scholars like Ghazali wrote large volumes about design in animals, plants, and the human body. What Intelligent Design theorists like Behe or Dembski do today is to refine the same argument with the findings of modern science.
In short, Intelligent Design is not alien to Islam. It is very much our cause, and we should do everything we can to support it.
How silly of me to not realize the DarwinCentral™ Reading Room & Smoking Lounge would have the latest information on this odd fellow and the radical Islamic organization he fronted for. Thanks for pointing it out.
I don't know about any of these other characters, but I would not cozy up too close to Harun Yahya.
So far as he cares, Darwinian theory is just one more reason why Western Civilization is evil, and proof that it will inevitably soon be overthrown by the Mahdi & Isha to create a worldwide Islamic Utopia under shar'ia law.
http://www.harunyahya.com/c_jesus_will_return.php
(BTW, the "Jesus" in Yahya's URL is not the Jesus that Christians believe in, but is the Islamic "Isha.")
He's a pacifist Muslim millennialist, for the most part, so I'll give him that much -- "Thanks for not wanting to kill me."
If I read him correctly, he thinks Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. will passively surrender national sovereignty to the Mahdi because the Mahdi will just be, like, gosh, so holy, yaknow. So the "jihad" will be done by the Mahdi, Isha, and friends converting mankind through preaching and personal examply, rather than by the sword.
But go to my FR homepage for more info on what Islamic apocalyptists believe.