The National Center for Science Education in the USA is an evolutionist institution that takes a close interest in the work of Adnan Oktar. This is what it had to say about the author in an article dated 9 May, 2008:
Oktar is the head of the Foundation for Scientific Research (Bilim Araştırma Vakfı, or BAV)... According to the historian of Creationism Ronald L. Numbers, “Initially Bav focused its missionary activities on Muslims in the Turkic Republics and in the Balkans, but quickly expanded to reach Muslims throughout the world,” with speakers dispatched to Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Britain, South Africa...

And its efforts have lately not been limited to Muslims; in 2007, unsolicited copies of a lavishly produced tome entitled The Atlas of Creation were distributed to bemused teachers and scientists in France, the Netherlands, and the United States.