MARC KAUFMAN: How would he describe his own effect on the Turkish population in terms of evolution and creation?

ADNAN OKTAR:The number of my books downloaded from Internet is very high. More than 80 million books are downloaded in one year. Especially in Turkey the number of the downloaded books are very high. Today, 95 percent of the Turkish people do not believe in Darwinism. Our friends have organized conferences in almost every city of the country. Furthermore we provided information on the Internet continuously. We explained the subjects by means of newspaper announcements. We had free book campaigns and enlightened our nation very well. We also provided comprehensive information to our people by TV and radio programs. Today the threat of Darwinism and materialism is eliminated in Turkey and has irreversibly vanished.

MARC KAUFMAN: And I know that there are other people who have been talking about this, other Turkish people, leaders and people who have written on this subject. Does he believe that they also would have had an influence or have they been misguided in some way?

ADNAN OKTAR:On the contrary we have seen that in Turkey, they have even had some devout Islamic scholars and professors undergo Darwinist and materialist training and kept them as a cell ready for action. We have seen that they have put these devout-seeming scholars in the guise of Islamic scholars into action to make the Turkish people Darwinists. Had we not been around, I believe that they would rapidly spread Darwinism throughout the Islamic world and the world in general. Under severe resistance, under scientific pressure they relented and collapsed.

ADNAN OKTAR:We met many conspiracies. One of them is the story that animals had undergone evolution but human beings had not. This was, for instance, also an insidious plot which we ruined. That is, they developed a reasoning which suggested that at least we should accept the evolution of animals. Very irrational. A very horrible explanation but we have eliminated it with scientific evidence and comprehensive explanations.