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Creationist nonsense still alive after 160 years
PETER FROST celebrates the 160th anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species, but not everyone is happy about it

IN THE the naval town of Portsmouth, there is a tiny museum called Genesis Expo. 

This weird place is the centre of the British Creation Science Movement. This is the extreme wing of the Christian church which believes that evolution is a fraud and a lie and that the entire world and every living thing on it was created in a few days by an all-powerful God just a few thousand years ago.

Strangely the small museum shop sells a good range of real fossils but of course these too were made by God just to fool us earthlings. 

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