A week of rows over creationism in the UK’s scientific establishment has claimed a prominent casualty as the Royal Society’s director of education, Michael Reiss, stepped down on Tuesday.
Speaking at the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) festival last week, Reiss called for creationism to be discussed in UK science classes. Reiss, an evolutionary biologist who is also an ordained Church of England priest, said the rise in religious fundamentalism in the UK means that “creationism is best seen by science teachers not as a misconception but as a world view”.
Although the Royal Society rapidly reiterated…
