Conveniently ignoring thousands of years of religious conflict, murder and war, and Islamic fundamentalist tries to blame Darwinism for all the violence that religious true believers have perpetrated in the name of God.

Much like American Christian "Creation Scientists," Harun Yahya begins his article, "The Real Ideological Root of Terrorism: Darwinism And Materialism," with the ludicrous claim that evolutionary theory "is backed up by no scientific evidence." He ignores the long history of European religious violence prior to Darwin, scientific Darwinism with the opportunistic ideology of Social Darwinism, and focuses exclusively on violent conflicts after Darwin. This sort of crude cut-and-paste approach is apparently the common heritage of creationists the world around, whatever conflicting myths of creation they claim contain the "only truth."

At the end of his article, Yahya writes:

"Actually, when Darwinism is taken away, no philosophy of 'conflict' remains. The three monotheistic religions that most people in the world believe in, Islam, Christianity and Judaism, all oppose violence. All three religions wish to bring peace and harmony to the world, and oppose innocent people being killed and suffering cruelty and torture. Conflict and violence violate the morality that God has set out for man, and are abnormal and undesired concepts. However, Darwinism sees and portrays conflict and violence as natural, justified and correct concepts that have to exist.

"For this reason, if some people commit terrorism using the concepts and symbols of Islam, Christianity and

Judaism in the name of those religions, you can be sure that those people are not Muslims, Christians or Jews. They are in fact Social Darwinists. They hide under a cloak of religion, but they are not genuine believers."

We look forward to a future article, wherein Mr. Yahya explains how Darwin invented a time machine and went back to the Dark Ages to secretly start the Crusades.