For decades, the creationist movement was primarily situated in the United States. Then, in the 1970s, American creationists found their ideas welcomed abroad, first in Australia and New Zealand, then in Korea, India, South Africa, Brazil, and elsewhere—including Europe, where creationism plays an expanding role in public debates about science policy and school curricula. In this, the first comprehensive history of creationism in Europe, leading historians, philosophers, and scientists narrate the rise of—and response to—scientific creationism, creation science, intelligent design, and organized antievolutionism in countries and religions throughout Europe.
Providing a unique map of creationism in Europe, the authors chart the surprising history of creationist activities and strategies there. Over the past forty years, creationism has spread swiftly among European Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus, and Muslims, even as anti-creationists sought to smother its flames. Antievolution messages gained such widespread approval, in fact, that in 2007 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe passed a resolution advising member states to “defend and promote scientific knowledge” and “firmly oppose the teaching of creationism as a scientific discipline on an equal footing with the theory of evolution.”
Well, you know what they say about the strategy of banning a viewpoint that clearly demarcates people into:
Shut up, they explained
and
But, ‘crats, you don’t own us, and we are not shutting up.
Especially when the Eurocrats’ own viewpoint is so baldly at odds with the evidence, as it is in so many situations nowadays.
And the higher the ‘crats sit, the less likely they’ll even notice, even as others notice more and more.
See also: A hundred people walked out of Darwin/evo psych indoctrination lecture at Oxford? And, while we are here, what’s happening with evolutionary psychology?
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