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Should we teach creationism in schools?

In a recent article for The Conversation website, Dr Jeremy Pritchard, Head of Education for the School of Biosciences, discusses the teaching of creationism in science classes in UK schools.

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Dr Jeremy Pritchard, Head of Education for the School of Biosciences, discusses the teaching of creationism in science classes in UK schools. In a recent article on The Conversation website, Dr Pritchard argues that this should be a worry and that the teaching of creationism should be confined to history classes.

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Dr Pritchard's teaching spans field ecology through to plant functional genomics and, as a card-carrying Darwinist, he is involved in teaching evolution at all levels from primary school to the U3A.