a bookstore and saw a book like this, it would be at least $100. ... The production costs alone are astronomical. We are talking millions of dollars.” According to Reuters news agency, recipients of the Atlases have wondered whether "U.S. creationists or Saudi financiers" are helping fund Oktar. Oktar himself maintains the giveaways were "normal public relations", funded by profits from sales of his books. 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. Tom Heneghan of Reuters quotes an "Istanbul Islam expert" speculating that the most likely explanation is donations from "a small group of affluent young Turks" who make up Oktar's "core group" of supporters. References External links Book Review: Atlas of Creation (Harun Yahya) in The American Muslim, Oct 19, 2009, by Sheila Musaji 2006 non-fiction books Book series introduced in 2006 21st-century Turkish books Books about creationism Creationist publications Islamic creationism Turkish non-fiction books Works published under a pseudonym