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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-01-05 08:31 AM
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"Not just an American phenomenon"
> A teachers' union has said it is alarmed by an increase in lessons
> which teach that Adam and Eve was the literal truth, rather the
> fable which science believes it to be. The rise in creationism is
> not just an American phenomenon.

...

> "Evolution is not compatible with Christianity," he insists.
> "Genesis tells us that death only came into the world because
> of Adam's sin. There was no death before then, and you can't have
> evolution without death."

...

> Many <dinosaurs> were killed off in Noah's flood and became fossils.
> Others hung around to scare our ancestors who called them dragons.
> Bill Cooper, a council member of CSM, argues the 8th Century poem
> Beowulf records a genuine encounter with a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4398345.stm

I thought it was bad enough that the UK adopted crap TV programs from
the US but it appears that "we" are also suffering from a dose of the
Evangelicals too ...

Nihil
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-05 06:48 PM
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1. I wouldn't worry too much,
We quite like loonies who are "eccentric" (we like them to make TV programs), but not loonies who are.., well, mad.
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