Turkey bans WordPress to placate Islamic creationist

Turkey blocks WordPress access at request of creationist cult leader

Our man is Adnan Oktar – he’s soon going to be a member of the EU !

His creation is the Atlas of Creation under the pen name Harun Yahya.

An April 2006 article in The Economist, In the beginning :The debate over creation and evolution, once most conspicuous in America, is fast going global.

Maybe I suggest as an immediate counterpoint:

Some Non-Scientific Observations on the Importance of Darwin

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Someone enterprising could make a few quid with a range of models/statues of important characters from the Age of Reason, the main feature of which would be be an extended arm and fore-finger pointing into the middle distance, not unlike the statues Saddam put on the waterfront in Basra, pointing over to the Shat al Arab and Iran beyond. You could buy one of these reasonably priced statues (made in PRC no doubt) and point it in the direction of wherever it was reliably known the most backward thinking person in the world was then situated.