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Warning of Confusion Over Creationism . . .
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Warning of Confusion Over Creationism
Wednesday, 27 March, 2002
(12:04 GMT)
The BBC

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Scientists want tighter controls on science lessons.
Image Credit: BBC.

"If a school is teaching Creationism then it is teaching it, on its own initiative, alongside the national curriculum. There is a body of opinion -- a small body -- which says there is a scientific basis for Creationism."

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Scientists say schoolchildren are being confused by conflicting teaching about the creation of the world.

They are stepping up their campaign against the teaching of Creationism in schools.

A total of 36 scientists and philosophers have written to the government, the chief scientific officer and the exam body the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) expressing alarm that creationism theory is being taught in schools.

The letter calls for a tightening up of science curriculum to prevent creation stories being taught as anything but myth.

"Denying Darwinism"

Professor Lewis Wolpert of University College London, a biologist, is one of those who signed the letter.

He said: "To teach Creationism is to deny Darwinism and the most important idea in the whole of biology is Darwin's theory of evolution."
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Dan

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