2003-04-28
... ? BBC NEWS | Education | 'Creationist' schools attackedA leading academic has attacked plans to open more schools teaching a 'creationist' view of the origins of life. The Vardy Foundation, which already runs the Emmanuel College in Gateshead, a non-denominational Christian school, has plans for six more schools in the north-east of England. The schools would teach creationism - drawn from the Bible's account of the creation of life - alongside the theory of evolution, as developed from the theories of Charles Darwin. But the plans have been condemned as "educational debauchery" by Richard Dawkins, professor of the public understanding of science at Oxford University.
