"Genesis
tells us that death only came into the world because of Adam's sin.
There was no death before then, and you can't have evolution without
death."

It says here:

Would you Adam and Eve it?
By Stephen Tomkins
Author



A teachers' union has said it is alarmed by an increase in lessons
which teach that Adam and Eve was the literal truth, rather the fable
which science believes it to be. The rise in creationism is not just
an American phenomenon.

It says here:

Would you Adam and Eve it?
By Stephen Tomkins
Author



A teachers' union has said it is alarmed by an increase in lessons
which teach that Adam and Eve was the literal truth, rather the fable
which science believes it to be. The rise in creationism is not just
an American phenomenon.

It says here:

Would you Adam and Eve it?
By Stephen Tomkins
Author

So many evolutionists are incredibly arrogant and give the impression
that only fools believe in creation

Bill Cooper, a council member of CSM, argues the 8th Century poem
Beowulf records a genuine encounter with a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

It says here:

Would you Adam and Eve it?
By Stephen Tomkins
Author



A teachers' union has said it is alarmed by an increase in lessons
which teach that Adam and Eve was the literal truth, rather the fable
which science believes it to be. The rise in creationism is not just
an American phenomenon.

For many British people, belief in a six-day creation seems to be one
of those incomprehensibly American quirks, like beef jerky and
pledging allegiance to the flag. But a large and growing number of
British Christians are defying Darwinist orthodoxy in favour of
creationism - the belief that Adam and Eve are the mother and father
of humanity.

They are less outspoken than in the US, where a new $25m museum of
creationism is being built in Kentucky, but they quietly number
hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions.

Dr Monty White tours churches throughout the UK, teaching "the
biblical view" that the universe is about 6,000 years old.


Evolution is not compatible with Christianity
Dr Monty White

"People believe in evolution because they choose to do so," he says.
"There is not a shred of real evidence for the evolution of life on
earth."

Though he argues his case scientifically, it is fundamentally a
religious commitment, a matter of faith in the Bible.

"Evolution is not compatible with Christianity," he insists. "Genesis
tells us that death only came into the world because of Adam's sin.

There was no death before then, and you can't have evolution without
death."

There is a creationist museum in Portsmouth called Genesis Expo, run
by the Creation Science Movement (CSM). Children can play with Boris
the dinosaur and learn why evolution is scientifically impossible.

'Brainwashing'

Where do Boris and his fellow dinosaurs fit into this worldview?

Many were killed off in Noah's flood and became fossils. Others hung
around to scare our ancestors who called them dragons. Bill Cooper, a
council member of CSM, argues the 8th Century poem Beowulf records a
genuine encounter with a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The chairman, Dr David Rosevear, says even non-Christian visitors
often accept their claims, "in spite of the brainwashing they get from
the media".

"Typically," he says, in a statement that would make arch evolutionist
Richard Dawkins' blood run cold, "a mother will bring her children
round in the holidays and say to me 'Yes, that's pretty much what I
always felt'."

How common are such beliefs among UK Christians?


So many evolutionists are incredibly arrogant and give the impression
that only fools believe in creation

The Reverend William Gardner
Monty White feels he is in a growing minority, David Rosevear in a
clear majority. More objectively, the Evangelical Alliance has polled
its members, which number about a million.
One-third of those surveyed believe Adam and Eve were created within
six days of the start of the universe. Of the other two-thirds, some
would accept evolution while others see Adam and Eve being created
after six "ages" of creation, rather than six literal days.

Reverend William Gardner of Devonshire Drive Baptist Church in
Greenwich is one minister who endorses the creationist view. He says
the world was created in six days, several thousand years ago, and he
teaches this in church.

Is evolution incompatible with Christianity? "Yes," he says, "because
ultimately evolution simply dismisses God."

He feels frustrated that the scientific evidence is not treated more
seriously. "So many evolutionists are incredibly arrogant and give the
impression that only fools believe in creation, when there are many
eminent scientists who say there is some evidence of design there."

Most apologists for creationism share this frustration. One of CSM's
leaflets rallies support for teaching creation in schools: "The
hard-nosed humanism of evolutionism has become entrenched in the
British educational system and in society at large. We need your
dedicated support to topple it!"

Dr White is less gung-ho, but is saddened and mystified by schools'
refusal to set Genesis alongside Darwin. In his university career,
there was often open and heated debate on the subject, so why not in
the classroom? "I simply don't understand what the problem is. Why
can't evolution be criticised in schools?"

Bucking the trend

On the other side of the desk, Mel is 16 and goes to an Anglican
church in Leeds. She respects people who don't take Genesis literally,
but no one has yet convinced her that evolution is more than a theory.

"People think you're nuts if you don't believe in evolution," she
says. "But maybe in 100 years there'll be some new discovery, and
people living then will think that everyone today was nuts to believe
we evolved from monkeys."