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Petition update, 20 February 2008

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It is generally accepted that the Theory of Evolution - with some extensions and qualifications - is the best explanation for the variety, extent and development of life on earth. Nonetheless there are those who, on the basis of religious faith, are intent on exposing school children to ideas such as creationism, so-called "Intelligent Design" and other varieties of religious dogma for which there is no scientific or factual basis. Some schools are teaching such creationism as "fact" or undermining the scientific theories by promoting doubt and highlighting any shortcomings whilst suggesting that creationism be accepted as an article of faith despite the lack of factual or evidentiary support. This petition calls for the latter views to be clearly categorised as "religious beliefs" and that in science classes, the predominance of the scientifically-based, evolutionary hypothesis be advanced as the generally accepted and most likely to be true.

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• Eric Hopley
• John Talbot
• Helena Gardner
• Gavin Atkinson
• James Anthony Dobson
• Becky Smith
• Suzanne Rogers
• DR Martin Milton
• C B HOWARD
• Peter Richard Crolla
• Philip Cheese
• Richard Hogg
• Richard Dargan
• Mark Gott
• Gareth Robson
• Julian carter
• Jack Cox
• Lambros Lambrou
• Dave Davis
• Paul Johnson
• Jonathan Castro
• Graham Westmore
• Dr Thomas Simon Baguley
• Martin Piper
• Andrew Korn
• Stephen Bennett
• Chris Nash
• Jago Silver
• Margaret King
• James Boag
• Tony Kenyon
• John Moseley
• Dr Neil Skelland
• Nigel Dingwall
• Alan Middleton
• Claire Lackford
• Robert Posgate
• Dave Cross
• Alison Field
• Andrew Sherlock
• Peter Hughes
• Joyce Beck
• Nicholas Lee
• Shaun Long
• Dr G Y Shin
• C T Tomkinson
• michael Sebastian Turco
• David Rigby
• Robert Sullivan
• Claire Mackenzie
• James Timmons
• D Thomas
• Mark Hudson
• Gary Fielder
• Evelyne Bull
• Timothy Lay
• Michael Charles Adam Holmes
• Kevin Rushbrooke
• s macdonald
• George Ricks
• Julie Dymond
• Gemma Rattle
• Glenn Wright
• Debbie Evans
• Nicholas Barton
• John Welch
• Tim Sands
• Martin Cowley
• l matthews
• douglas gary smith
• Ian Grant
• David Boniface
• Zoya Falstervi
• Kevin Aylward
• Dr Paul A Daniels
• Ian Trattell
• J C Heatherley
• Mike Green
• Norman L Cox
• William Arrowsmith
• Kane Coxon
• Joanne Gisby
• Mark Allen
• Megan Brannigan
• George Jelliss
• Steve Ganner
• Mike Brass
• Dr. Brian Jordan
• John Flemming
• Phillip A Healey
• Mark Edon
• Mark Wilson
• Martin Henderson
• Kirsty McKeown
• Andrew Lee
• Michael John Boreham
• Stephen Kensett
• Roger Stanyard
• Gwynne Reddick
• Emma Whitcombe
• Mark Peplow
• Mervyn Slade
• Bruce Williamson
• Sean Davies
• Prof. Patrick J Boylan
• Christine Shortman
• peter snowdon
• Paul Beet
• Jeff Rhys
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• Stanley James Hawkins
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• Lana Adamou
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• Carol Ann Hansbury
• Bryan Kennerley
• Tom Straszewski
• Quentin Brodie Cooper
• Harald Clark
• peter Knight
• Charmaine Briscoe
• Darren Hopkinson
• Alex Aldred
• Fiona Steel
• Hannah Broughton
• Gordon Peter Duff
• Barry Streater
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• Marcus Jones
• Marcus Hill
• John Gardner
• Andrew Pearse
• Gary Williams
• Brian Dron
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• Michaela Freeman
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• Jennifer Payne
• David Peter Fuller
• Peter Bossom
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• geoffrey bennett
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• Dr Paul Millington
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• Dr Robert Pumphrey
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• William Heywood
• AHATSHAM ALI
• Thomas Wiggins
• Simon Coleman-Smith
• James Smith
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• Jane Stewart-Williams
• Steve Stewart-Williams
• Jodie Fletcher
• Dr Katharine Bradley
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• Fiona Clark
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• Denise Gibson BSc
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• Lee Clements
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• Lynsey Dickenson
• Hayley Power
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• Pompeyo Santiago
• louise manning
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• Jakub Witkiewicz
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• Kenneth Allan Monks
• Michael Carson
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• Alan Green
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• mark savage
• sarah worrall
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• Matthew Eades
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• Dan Walters
• Steve Campbell
• Eleanor Packham
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• Evan Berriman
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• mark woodbine
• D M Hodges
• Mike Woodhouse
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• Aidan Wightman
• helen norrie
• Paul Qureshi
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• N Saunders
• John Hampton
• Joseph Sutton
• Keith Childs
• Rebecca Walford
• Alexandra Ross
• fiona murphy
• Lee McLoughlin
• Fay Emerson
• Rachel Affleck
• John Emerson
• thomas sherborne
• Lewis John Palin
• John Mooney
• Jonathan Lee
• Erin Sheerin
• Craig Mold
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• Freya Brookes
• Andrew rankine
• Jamie Lambert
• Elanor Gordon
• Don Wycherley
• Eric Hopley
• david charles hinson
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• Victoria Francis
• Robert Scott
• n freeman
• Michael Gadd
• P E G COPE
• Graham Cox
• Chris Barrett
• Paul Fitzgibbon
• Dorothy Bishop
• Jon Storey
• Monica Smith
• paul edmondson
• Jonathon Haley
• Elaine Hannah
• Jenny Lilleyman
• Phil Downs
• Fiona Finlayson
• Dave Geddes
• Paul Birchenough
• Jeanette Shepherd
• Ralph Prescott
• Debesh Datta
• Adam Sugden
• Laura Donaghy
• Gary Pitcher
• Christopher Winton
• alfie stephenson-boyles
• Jason Horton
• David Cade
• Thomas Porteus
• Matt Blissett
• Henry Jones
• Perryn Biggs
• Stuart Leather
• Alistair J Murray

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