(DUP’s Edwin Poots)
Some 40% of DUP activists believe that creationism should be taught in science classes, a Belfast Telegraph survey has found. Creationism is the belief that the world, animals and plants were created “by a supernatural being less than 10,000 years ago”.
Mainstream science holds that the earth is four and a half billion years old and that life evolved from one-celled organisms. Some 50% of DUP respondents believed creationism shouldn’t be taught in science class, with 10% not knowing and 40% believing it should be there as well as, or instead of, mainstream science.
Won’t someone think of the dinosaurs?
Party conference: Teach creationism in science class – 40% of DUP (Liam Clarke, Belfast Telegraph)
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