For once, an evolutionary biologist and a creationist agree on something. Professor Steve Jones, the author of an updated version of Darwin’s Origin of Species, and John Mackay, an Australian preacher who believes the book of Genesis constitutes literal truth, are both convinced that creationism is making a comeback in British classrooms.

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It’s difficult to understand how this can happen, but it seems that we need to be vigilant. So far, we haven’t come across creationism in Suffolk schools, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any. In Kansas, they’ve fought creationism and the teaching of ‘intelligent design’ with ridicule. ‘Concerned citizen’ Bobby Henderson has established the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Can we sign you up, brothers and sisters?