The Atlas of Creation (or, in Turkish, Yaratılış Atlası) is a series of creationist books written by Adnan Oktar under the pen name Harun Yahya.

The books argues that different species of living things are exactly the same today as they were hundreds of millions of years ago, that having been created by God, life forms on Earth have never undergone even the slightest change/evolution.

[3] The arguments used by the book to undermine evolution have been criticized as illogical, while evolutionary biologist Kevin Padian has stated that people who had received copies were "just astounded at its size and production values and equally astonished at what a load of crap it is."

"[9] Geneticist and writer Adam Rutherford writes that the book claims to prove that no species alive on Earth today underwent mutagenesis, but points out that Page 244 has a picture of a caddis fly, with a legend that asserts - as virtually every page does - that the beast in question has always existed in its current form as demonstrated by a vaguely similar looking fossil, therefore evolution is bunk.

Except it's not a caddis fly, it's a fishing lure, beautifully crafted by master tier Graham Owen, with the clearly visible hook piercing the man-made abdomen.

Moreover, as Jacques Arnoult emphasises, the BAV and Harun Yahya in Turkey, just like the American Institute for Creation Research, resort to partial, indeed erroneous, references to develop their creationist arguments.

The authors do not hesitate to quote magazine articles that defend evolution but they succeed in turning the meaning round by shortening the quotations.

This is nothing less than intellectual dishonesty, which is particularly harmful.At least a couple of sources (Richard Dawkins, Kenneth R. Miller),[9] have wondered where the money came from to pay for mailing tens of thousands of copies of a 800-page book with very high production values around the world to people and places unlikely to be very sympathetic to its message.

We are talking millions of dollars.”[3] According to Reuters news agency, recipients of the Atlases have wondered whether "U.S. creationists or Saudi financiers" are helping fund Oktar.

[12] However, Taner Edis, a Turkish-American physicist finds all these explanations implausible – “American creationists I talk to basically envy Harun Yahya’s financial resources"; Wahhabi Saudi donors would disapprove of the undoctrinaire mixture of Shi’ite, Sufi and Sunni elements in Oktar’s message; profits from sales of the book would not seem to provide nearly enough given the cost of the giveaways and that sales of the book have been less than brisk.