DARWINISM-WATCH

	An article in the American daily New Haven Register, written by Abram Katz and containing various comments regarding subjects included in Harun Yahya’s Atlas of Creation, contained both inaccurate information and unscientific interpretations. First and foremost it need to be made absolutely clear that the information in Abram Katz’s article regarding the views of Adnan Oktar, who writes under the pen-name Harun Yahya, is incorrect. Adnan Oktar has stated many times in his works and in interviews that the Jews are part of the community referred to in the Qur’an as the “Peoples of the Book,” and that he holds sincere Jews, and of course Christians, in the deepest respect. The first part of The ''Encyclopedia of Life'' Has Now Been Released The first release of the Encyclopedia of Life portal, which contains 30,000 species and eventually aims to document all species of life on Earth, is available on the web site www.eol.org. Every species on the site has its own page containing images and relevant facts. The aim is for the number of species documented to reach 1.8 million by 2017. In preparing the portal, use was made of online databases that had already been developed and contained information concerning a great many life forms. Dr. James Edwards, the executive director of the Encyclopedia of Life, states that they used a technology to pool data from different sources and present them within their portal. “If someone were to sit down and start writing, from scratch, an encyclopedia of life, it would take them about 100 years to complete. But we think we'll be able to do it in one-tenth of that time, " says Edward.