On 6 December, 2008, Itimat (Etemaad), a well-known Farsi-language daily published in Iran, carried an interview with Adnan Oktar. An extract from the interview:
ADNAN OKTAR: There is currently a Darwinist, materialist intellectual dictatorship in the world. This also manifests itself as a social dictatorship. Darwinism has established a hugely oppressive regime.  Although the theory is a deception and a lie, it is officially protected all over the world. Ninety-five percent of countries protect Darwinism. It is under official protection, and this is the first time in the history of the world that such an ideology, a theory, is officially protected all over the world, by around 95% of countries. There are 100 million fossils that prove Creation and show that human beings were created. But Darwinism has not a single example of what they describe as transitional fossils. I have even said I will give 10 trillion [Turkish] lira to anyone bringing a single such piece of evidence.  A protein cannot come into being by chance, their skulls are hoaxes, the fossils they use as supposed transitional forms actually prove Creation, and I have proved all this in my book. This is a great deception and imposition. Students who reject it have to repeat the year again, while professors who reject it are sacked and authors find their books banned, as happened with me. A completely anti-democratic dictatorship has grown up inside democracy, the Darwinist dictatorship. This must absolutely be torn down, and that is my first duty. But Muslims’ real aim, of course, must be to earn Allah’s approval. This is one of my first activities on the way to attaining Allah’s approval. But I also have second and third objectives, of course. I also have ideals such as the foundation of the Turkish-Islamic Union, for all Turkic and Islamic countries to join together to live in peace, well-being, security and brotherhood, and these are things that have a 100% certainty of happening, insha’Allah... It is technically impossible for anyone reading my books, any rational person, to still believe in Darwinism. I cannot conceive of such a person. They will definitely abandon it. But some people still insist on and maintain these ideas, either out off pride, or ignorance or because I have not yet managed to reach them. But I believe that these will also come round in the end, that they will see the true path, and will see that Darwinism is a ruse, a pagan religion and a deception.