The Daily Mail (London, England), April 22nd, 2006
CHILDREN should be taught from the age of 11 that Darwin's theory of evolution is a fact, an eminent scientist said yesterday. Dr Richard Pike, chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry, said that all schools must stop referring to evolution as 'just an idea'. His comments were made amid a long-running row over claims that some of Tony Blair's flagship city academies teach creationism in science lessons. Creationism includes a belief that all forms of life have always existed in their present form and that the world was formed in 4004BC, rather than 4,600million years ago as scienti...
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