{"id":554,"date":"2007-12-08T20:57:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T20:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/08\/creationism-book-on-display-in\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T20:57:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T20:57:15","slug":"creationism-book-on-display-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/08\/creationism-book-on-display-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationism Book on Display in US Gov. Agency Waiting Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2007\/12\/hbc-90001865\">this blog<\/a> at harpers.org, yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m not sure if Secretary of the Commerce Carlos Gutierrez is cheap or cuckoo, but it comes as something of a shock to learn that the controversial book The Atlas of Creation is prominently displayed in the waiting room to his office. Written by the Turkish writer Adnan Oktar (under the pen name of Harun Yahya), the Atlas offers an Islamic version of creationism and blames Charles Darwin for modern terrorism-including the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And today, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2007\/12\/hbc-90001874\">same source:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Richard Mills, an agency spokesman, said in an email: &#8220;Apparently like thousands of others, the Department received an unsolicited gift, which was mistakenly displayed in a reception area. We regret this mistake occurred and have removed the book.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this blog at harpers.org, yesterday: I&#8217;m not sure if Secretary of the Commerce Carlos Gutierrez is cheap or cuckoo, but it comes as something of a shock to learn that the controversial book The Atlas of Creation is prominently displayed in the waiting room to his office. Written by the Turkish writer Adnan Oktar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/08\/creationism-book-on-display-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creationism Book on Display in US Gov. Agency Waiting Room<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}