"若い創造論者"発、インテリジェントデザイン経由、"古い地球の創造論"なイスラム系創造論者Harun YahyaことAdnan Oktarの出版した"Atlas of Creation"について、
Richard Dawkins
が、"学術的"に笑えるネタを見つけている。
Given that the entire message of the book depends upon the alleged resemblance between modern animals and their fossil counterparts, I was amused, when I began flicking through at random, to find page 468 devoted to "eels", one fossil and one modern. The caption says,
この本(Atlas of Creation)のメッセージは、現生動物と対応する化石が似ているという主張に基づいている。しかし、私がペラペラとページをめくって、p468の"ウナギ"の化石と現生品を比べたページで、笑わされた：
There are more than 400 species of eels in the order Anguilliformes. That they have not undergone any change in millions of years once again reveals the invalidity of the theory of evolution.
The fossil eel shown may well be an eel, I cannot tell. But the modern "eel" that Yahya pictures (see left) is undoubtedly not an eel but a sea snake, probably of the highly venomous genus Laticauda (an eel is, of course, not a snake at all but a teleost fish). I have not scanned the book for other inaccuracies of this kind. But given that this was almost the first page I looked at . . . what price the main thesis of the book that modern animals are unchanged since the time of their fossil counterparts?
そして、Harun Yahyaの"Atlas of Creation Vol.1"の該当ページであるp468はこれ：
[Harun Yahya: "Altas of Creation Vol.1", p.402-403]
その後、Richard Dawkinsが新たに見つけたネタが追記されている：
Postscript added 8th July
On page 402, there are four fossil pictures, correctly labelled Brittlestar. The brittlestars are one of the major classes of echinoderms, others being starfish, sea urchins and crinoids. Once again, we have the standard-issue creationist caption:
This 180-millionyear-old fossil reveals that brittlestars have been the same for 200 million years. These animals, no different to those living today, once again reveal the invalidity of evolution.
Here we have not one but two photographs of living animals to illustrate the lack of change since the fossils. One of these modern animals is indeed a brittlestar. The other is a starfish! Member of a completely different class of echinoderms and obviously very different to even the meanest glance.
Anyway, here’s his example of a living caddisfly:
なんにせよ、彼が示す現生のトビケラ：
It’s a fishing lure. He stole the image from Graham Owen, from whom he also stole this:
それはルアー。彼はGraham Ownから画像をパクっている。同じくこれもパクっている：
... which he believes is a living spider.
生きているクモだと信じて...
