Sadly most of us knew this monster in a very different way- as the leading creationist of the Muslim world. Growing up we didn’t know this side of him, if we had I think the elders would have quickly distanced themselves! ‘Harun Yahya’ was taken very seriously, his books... 1/ https://twitter.com/sebusher/status/1348617818556792834
... were very prominent in bookshops and in homes, his team would pack lecture theatres all over the world with titles like ‘evolution deceit’. As a teen I read his stuff like we all did, but quickly realised that some of his arguments were weak - it was actually one of the... 2/
...main reasons I went off to study genetics and evolution, because the way he picked holes in the theory of evolution wasn’t very robust so I thought I could do a better job... 🤣

But quite honestly- this guy is a case study in how to hold millions of people back through... 3/
...intellectual dishonestly. If it wasn’t for him the communities I grew up in would not have been so dead set against evolution. I really believe that. How many brilliant potential evolutionary biologists and scientists have we lost because this twat declared that the... 4/
... underlying assumption of biology was not just wrong, but that it was heretical and on top of that- that scientists were actively lying to us all.

I hate that I have an arrogant streak - but if it wasn’t for that coupled with a solid theological background I would... 5/
...never have had the balls to enquire on my own. God at uni I had religious mates who genuinely looked terrified when revising for evolution lectures, they were there to memorise and pass, not to think and were terrified of being challenged. Harun Yahya is heavily... 6/
...responsible for the brain drain in many scientific fields in Muslim communities. I hope he rots away and that he acts as a cautionary tale against blindly following. End/
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