IMPACT 29:

We urgently need to make good the gaps on this subject before they are filled by the arguments of [those] ... that are increasingly gaining supporters on this side of the Atlantic. Because this subject may achieve a political dimension.

IMPACT 30:

... This may also be the case in France, and religious or other populist ideologies divert the discourse of science for their profit. We are dealing with a major challenge.

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ANTI-DARWINIST ATTACKS IN EUROPE

IMPACT 32:

France/January 2007: 2,000 copies of Atlas of Creation - a creationist work based on the Qur'an and critical of the theory of evolution - were sent out to French schools and universities.

IMPACT 33:

France/October 2007: Alarmed at the progression of Creationist ideas, some members of the Council of Europe, under the direction of former French deputy Guy Langagne, proposed a resolution banning creationist intervention in education...

Europeans have begun to realize that evolution consists of a myth proposed under the primitive conditions of the 19th century and that Creation has been proved with the very clearest evidence. This intellectual enlightenment beginning in Europe has led to alarm among materialist, atheist and Darwinist circles. One of the latest manifestations of that unease is the report issued by the Committee on Culture, Science and Education of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly.

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Holland: January 2007: The Dutch-language copies of Atlas of Creation were sent out to a number of schools and universities... Minister of Education Maria van der Hoeven admits to "not believing in chance" in the evolution of living things...

IMPACT 35:

Poland: Vice-Minister of Education Miroslaw Orzechowski... described Charles Darwin's theory as a "lie."

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Germany: The creationist Lebendige-Vorwelt (Rhur) museum in Hagen-Holenlimburg began displaying a large fossil collection aimed at showing that species remain unchanged over time and therefore never evolved.

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Russia: ... an increasingly large number of students reject the teaching of evolution and that Charles Darwin's theory should enjoy a monopoly position in education.

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Serbia: Minister of Culture Ljiljana Colic recommended that the theory of evolution be removed from primary school lessons or that, as an appropriate alternative, creationist education should also be provided...