Thousands of books, CD’s and DVD’s are waiting to be shipped out to the four corners of the United Kingdom. This is not any old storage depot; it is a repository belonging to the creationist movement.

Charles Darwin can roll in his grave all he wants: for this militant group of evangelicals, the creation of the world, in six days of course, is no mythological tale. Very popular in the United States, where it was born, the creationist movement is gaining purchase in Europe. In Britain, these evangelicals have given themselves a mission: to have their theory integrated into school curriculums.

A heresy? Not necessarily. The terrain is more favourable than one might think. In this state-funded school, pupils are more than willing to turn Darwin into a new servant of the Almighty. More surprising still is the discourse of some teachers.

Radical Christians inviting themselves into schools, a state of affairs that those defending secularity in Britain cannot abide. For them, sacrificing scientific research on the altar of religious convictions is quite simply unacceptable.

For the time being the British government is in no way reconsidering the place of the theory of evolution in the national curriculum. So will creationist ideas be reaching any school desks before the Apocalypse? God only knows.