Fossilized Thinking

From today's New York Times:

An Islamic creationist is mailing a lavishly illustrated 800-page attack on evolutionary theory to scientists around the world.

"In our country we are used to nonsense like this," said Kevin Padian, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who, like colleagues there, found a copy in his mailbox.

He said people who had received copies were "just astounded at its size and production values and equally astonished at what a load of crap it is."

The rest is here.