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Widely believed in the United States, creationism – the belief that God created the earth and man in six days – is enjoying a resurgence of support in the UK, say its believers and its critics.
At first glance the Genesis Expo museum, in the naval town of Portsmouth, looks like any other repository of natural history exhibits: fossils of dinosaurs and unusual rock formations.
But focus on the narrative of the information panels alongside them, and you start to realise this is a museum with a difference – one dedicated to the theory of creationism.
The revelation that US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin says creationism should be taught in schools, alongside that of evolutionary theory, has raised few eyebrows in the US. An estimated 47% of Americans reject outright Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, accepting instead the Bible’s account of the creation of the universe – as laid out in the first chapter of Genesis
But in Britain, where a portrait of Darwin appears on the back of the £10 note, his theory of life evolving from primitive to complex structures by means of natural selection appears to be unchallenged orthodoxy.
Not so, say those on both sides of the creationist divide – a point amply proved by the existence of the Genesis Expo museum, to date Britain’s only creationist museum. The museum is the work of Britain’s oldest creationist group, the Creation Science Movement, which has built Genesis Expo to visibly challenge the theory of evolution .
In its walk-through display, fossils in glass cases purport to show that ancient animals – including man – did not evolve from lower creatures but were instead divinely created “after their kind” (Genesis Chapter 1, verse 21).
A picture of a landslide-causing volcano is used to counter the scientific understanding that rock strata took millions of years to build up.
And throughout the display are scattered examples of “intelligent design” – complex creatures that “could not have evolved” as the result of natural selection

She said it was now time for government to step in.
“Somebody’s got to stand up and take responsibility for this. The government are responsible for the health of our children.
“I think it has got to go direct to the Prime Minister.”
Dr Swanson said a stakeholder group, including the electricity industry, government, patient groups and cancer charities, had been set up to investigate.
He said the fact that the industry had been involved in the latest study showed how committed it was and that it took the matter seriously.
“We are as determined as anybody to get to the bottom of this.
“Even if we don’t know for certain what is causing it, just the fact that there does seem to be an increased rate of cancer near power lines means we have got to think about these questions of ’should people carry on living near power lines or not?’” he said.
Both Cancer Research UK and Leukaemia Research said there was no reason why anyone should be advised to move house on the basis of these new results.
They said there were many possible causes of leukaemia, including genes and exposure to infections.
The BMJ study estimated that if living in close proximity to power lines at birth did increase the chance of leukaemia, it would account for only 1% of all childhood leukaemias.

The survey to underpin the work was conducted through Ipsos Mori and involved interviews with some 11,000 people aged over 18, mostly face-to-face, last April.
Of those, more than 7,000 knew of Darwin’s work already.
People were asked which statements were closest to their own opinion about how evolutionary theory should be taught in science lessons in schools.
The highest proportion agreeing that evolutionary theories alone should be taught was in India, at 49%, followed by Spain (42%).
One in five in China and in South Africa thought other perspectives – and not evolutionary theories – should be taught.
Those opting for evolutionary theory “together with other possible perspectives, such as intelligent design and creationism” ranged from 38% in Spain to the 68% in Argentina.
“It is quite an interesting response and we need to think about why that is,” said the head of the Darwin Now programme, Dr Fern Elsdon-Baker.
Her feeling is that the debate about Darwinism has been portrayed as very polarised: science versus religion.
A previous survey suggested a lot of people were open-minded about having a faith and understanding that evolutionary processes occurred, and she thinks the polarisation of the arguments has confused them about how science works as a process.
“The majority of people in each country polled felt it was acceptable to have faith and think evolution happens by means of natural selection,” she said.
So it was necessary to communicate science in a less dogmatic, more sophisticated way, she said.
Darwinism remains controversial.
In March Turkey’s scientific and technological research council pulled a cover article about Darwin from its popular magazine, provoking outrage among scientists.
Dr Elsdon-Baker said: “It would be ridiculous to suggest that there haven’t been problems with the Darwin anniversary – but the British Council project, which is working in 45 countries, has had a very positive response.
“There’s clearly a demand for these kind of science communication activities around Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection.”

The latest study was carried out by Dr Gerald Draper and colleagues from the Childhood Cancer Research Group at Oxford University, and Dr John Swanson, a scientific adviser at National Grid Transco.
It looked at more than 29,000 children with cancer, including 9,700 with leukaemia, born between 1962 and 1995, and a control group of healthy youngsters in England and Wales.
The researchers measured the distance from children’s home addresses at birth from the nearest high voltage power line.
They found that 64 children with leukaemia lived within 200m of the line, while 258 lived between 200-600m away.
Overall, youngsters living within 200m of the lines were about 70% more likely to develop leukaemia, and those living between 200 and 600m away about 20% more likely to develop leukaemia than those who lived beyond 600m from high voltage pylons.
Although the trend was definite, the researchers said they could not reasonably explain why it occurred.
For this reason, they caution that it might be down to factors other than the pylons themselves, such as the type of people who live near pylons or the general environment where pylons are located, which they plan to investigate.

Approval for a major upgrade of pylons through the Cairngorms would blight the face of the national park, according to a new campaign group.
Cairngorms Revolt Against Pylons has urged the Scottish Executive not to “rubber stamp” the 67m-tall pylons.
The route, which cuts through the area where the BBC’s Monarch of the Glen is filmed, is part of a planned 180-mile upgrade between Beauly and Denny.
An executive spokesman said it had not yet received a formal application.
The campaign group said the electricity transmission pylons were each the size of the Statue of Liberty.
has also called on energy firm Scottish and Southern Energy to bury the line underground where it passes through Cairngorm National Park.
Spokesman Roy Tylden-Wright said: “If the Scottish Executive rubber stamp these plans it will be failing in its duty to protect Scotland’s second national park.
“Imagine how America’s image abroad would suffer if the government agreed to the construction of monster pylons through Yellowstone National Park?”
Mr Tylden-Wright said that at twice the height of existing pylons in the Highlands the planned route would dominate the park entrances at Kinlochlaggan, Drumochter Pass and the Corrieyairack Pass.
He said this was one of Europe’s last wild landscapes and warned the project could have a disastrous impact on tourism.

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The BBC has decided a panel of experts will now choose the winner of a school choir contest that was supposed to be judged by a public vote.
Choirs uploaded videos of themselves on to a website, in a contest running alongside TV show Any Dream Will Do.
People could then rate the choirs online. But the BBC said the process had been compromised by evidence of block voting and technical problems.
A panel will choose the winner from 843 entries to perform at the show’s final.
The BBC had accused some online voters of unfairly trying to boost their choir’s chances.
The winner of the contest was due to be announced on the Any Dream Will Do website on 31 May but this has now been postponed.
It is not yet known when the winning choir will be notified but it will still perform during the show’s final on 9 June as originally planned.
The Any Dream Will Do talent contest is seeking someone to star in the lead role of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in London’s West End.
The 843 choir entries will be whittled down to 20 by the same expert panel who selected the Joseph finalists from regional heats, which includes the show’s vocal coach and judge, Zoe Tyler.
The winner will then by chosen by Andrew Lloyd Webber and fellow composer Howard Goodall.

Part of the planned route cuts through the Cairngorms National Park.
Fears have also been expressed in the Stirling area that the metal towers would destroy the historic landscape and pose cancer risks to children living nearby.
The company said that overall there would be 200 fewer pylons than on the existing 132,000-volt transmission line, but that the new ones would be bigger. Their height would range from 42m to 65m.
Almost 80% of the pylons would be lower than 57m. The height of the pylons on the existing line ranges from 25m to 41m.
Campaigners have urged the company to put the cable underground but an independent inquiry found this would cost between six and 12 times as much.
Peter Pearson, spokesman for protest group Stirling Before Pylons, said the structures were almost as high as the Wallace Monument and threatened to come within a few hundreds yards of it.
However, Scottish Renewables criticised the protest.
Chief executive Maf Smith said: “The exploitation of a Scottish icon like the Wallace Monument is a typically emotive tactic by anti-wind power protestors, but the fact is they know they are firmly in the minority and are fighting a losing battle.”
He said a recent independent survey found that 72% of Scots agree wind farms are necessary to help meet the country’s current and future energy needs.
As well as demanding a public inquiry, critics have called on Stirling Council to object to the “poorly thought out” pylon proposals.
A Scottish Executive spokesman said: “The Forum for Renewable Energy Development in Scotland (Freds) assists with the development of energy policy in Scotland.
“Freds considers that many of the current proposals for onshore wind development are speculative and are likely to drop out of the system.
“The executive agrees with this view and does not expect anything like all of the current volume of developer interest in onshore wind to be consented.
“We have made clear our aim to see Scotland’s renewable electricity generation targets being met through the development of a range of technologies and we will bring forward detailed proposals in order to achieve that aim.”

And Paul Callan of the Daily Express said of Mead: “He has a great talent, and will go far. His voice is clear, firm and convincing.”
Tuesday’s audience at the Adelphi Theatre was packed with critics and celebrities, including Jason Donovan and Stephen Gately, who have previously played Joseph.
Following a standing ovation, the losing contestants of the Any Dream Will Do show joined Mead on stage, along with the musical’s creators Sir Tim Rice and Andrew
Lloyd Webber.
Mead was picked to play the part of Joseph by a public vote, having impressed a panel of judges during the competition.
The 26-year-old from Essex had already appeared in the musical, playing the Pharaoh character in a touring production.
Speaking immediately after the show, Mead said there had been an “amazing response” from the audience, and dismissed the technical hitch, saying: “That’s theatre!”
TV talent show winner Lee Mead’s first night in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was hit by a hitch when a revolving stage broke.
The West End performance had to be temporarily halted while the problem was fixed.
Mead won the chance to play the lead role through the BBC One programme Any Dream Will Do.
Critics were largely won over by his performance, although some said his voice was not always strong enough.
The Telegraph’s Charles Spencer said Mead “has a powerful and expressive voice” but was concerned “his vocals were beginning to sound a little frayed” by the end.