petition the Prime Minister to Ensure Evolution-based Science is taught in Schools and NOT Creationism.

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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Ensure Evolution-based Science is taught in Schools and NOT Creationism. More details

Submitted by Richard Painter of none – Deadline to sign up by: 16 January 2008 – Signatures: 265

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It is generally accepted that the Theory of Evolution - with some extensions and qualifications - is the best explanation for the variety, extent and development of life on earth. Nonetheless there are those who, on the basis of religious faith, are intent on exposing school children to ideas such as creationism, so-called "Intelligent Design" and other varieties of religious dogma for which there is no scientific or factual basis. Some schools are teaching such creationism as "fact" or undermining the scientific theories by promoting doubt and highlighting any shortcomings whilst suggesting that creationism be accepted as an article of faith despite the lack of factual or evidentiary support. This petition calls for the latter views to be clearly categorised as "religious beliefs" and that in science classes, the predominance of the scientifically-based, evolutionary hypothesis be advanced as the generally accepted and most likely to be true.

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