In its 18 July, 2007, edition The Guardian, one of Great Britain’s best known dailies, carried a report in its “People” column which referred to Adnan Oktar’s Atlas of Creation. The paper, which enjoys a readership of around 400,000, had this to say about the Atlas:
“American scientists have been bemused to receive a lavish 800-page book extolling the wonders of creationism and describing evolution as a theory in crisis – ‘impossible, illusory, a lie and a deception’. The volume is coming not from a Christian fundamentalist group but apparently an Islamic one, Adnan Oktar of Turkey… Kevin Padian, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, told the New York Times he was astounded at its production values...”