The Economist (A well-known weekly newsmagazine): “Across the Muslim world he seems to be riding high. Many of the most popular Islamic websites refer readers to his vast canon.”

Germany, Die Welt : “Adnan Oktar is taking great strides in his campaign against the theory of evolution.”

Belgium, A Voix Autre Newspaper:  “(For the Atlas) The appearance of the work (high-quality, four-color printing) reveals itself with a desire to be the leading soldier of the most powerful troop in the midst of the struggle against Darwinism.” “Creationist literature has never been so powerful.”

USA, The New York Times: “‘Atlas of Creation’ is probably the largest and most beautiful creationist challenge yet to Darwin’s theory. Mr. Yahya calls Darwinism as a feeble and perverted ideology contradicted by the Koran.”

GERMANY, Süddeutsche Zeitung: “The most influential Muslim Creationist is spreading across the world.” “So effective has Atlas of Creation been that the authorities are unwilling for it to be given to young students without supervision. Indeed, they think it will have a damaging effect on young pupils.”

CBS News: “In Turkey, Oktar and his books certainly appear to be having an impact. When Science magazine conducted a survey of 34 countries last August, Turkey had the second-lowest acceptance rate of the theory of evolution (the United States had the lowest).” “‘Every Islamic bookshop I know of stocks Harun Yahya's material. It is so glossily produced. It is very attractive and very colorful and outclasses everything else,’ says Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim British Council, speaking by phone from London. ‘It is having an effect. Even among Muslim medical students there are a number now who are speaking out against Darwin.’”

USA, The Christian Science Monitor: “Islamic Creationist Group Launches Glitzy, Global Blitz.” “Turkey is now the headquarters of creationism in the Islamic World. This is no longer only Turkey's problem, it is now the problem of the whole civilized world.”

Germany, Die Tageszeitung: “There are some books that, because of their special contents, need to be kept close at hand. Atlas of Creation is one such book.” “The Atlas of Creation is like an icon of the cultural struggle for the correct science of the origins of human beings and other organisms.”

A German teacher who received a copy of the Atlas: "WE HAVE LITERALLY BEEN CAUGHT BY A DELUGE. The book was by the Creationist Harun Yahya. ‘Impossible,’ I said, but there it was. It was a really costly book. The illustrations were wonderful. But the book had been sent to a public institution, and, what’s more, free of charge… I was stunned. A friend and I began running around in the staff common room.”

A French blog: “If anyone has a spare copy to give me that would be wonderful for my private collection. THIS HUGE WARSHIP, which employs broad quotations from the Qur’an, was written by Harun Yahya, whose real name is Adnan Oktar. He has no qualms.”

Professor Laurence Bouquiaux, Liege University web site: “I examined the book more closely. And I finally grasped the connection the author was making. The subject Oktar opens for debate is “Creationism and Evolution,” which he sets out in terminology unfamiliar to us. Moreover, his scientific objections do not stem from the Qur’an… He defends Creationism in the name of science … Unless we wish to experience an irrevocable counter-attack it will be as well for us to determine the point reached by the debate so far.”

A French blog: “An obviously splendid book. Atlas of Creation, published in Turkey in December, is full of coloured illustrations, consists of 770 pages and weighs as much as a paving stone. It looks like a science book that will be popular among children, one that is filled with coloured photographs of fossil animals and that is easily accessible to the public… The main theme of the book is “the eradication of atheist ideology.”