David Gent wrote on 22 March:

<<I have been interested in Creationism and Creation Science for some time now and 
interestly this last week or so - for the first time ever that I can recall - it has 
become an educational issue in the British media.  There is a school teaching 
creationism alongside evolution.  In fact because it's been in the media I have become 
aware that there are several such schools including Muslim schools teaching from the 
Koranic rather than Biblical perspective.

One thing people who lecture on creation-science will tell you is that
they meet, from time to time, science professionals and students who say
that they have questions about the scientific orthodoxy and perhaps even
could be convinced by the creation science arguments - but they will never
say so in public because they want to finish their course, keep their job,
get promotion and avoid the general opprobrium that would follow.>>

I think it should be made clear that, from what I heard in a BBC interview
with one of the people involved with the running of the school, we are not
talking here about some sophisticated theory about intelligent design. As
I recall, the position held by the fundamentalist Christian in question
was that human beings appeared on the earth around 12,000 years ago.

Allen Esterson
London
www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html

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