TBliar seemed a little less ready to stamp on that particular matter if I recall - I think I may have emailed about Vardy's academy and it's "science" teacher's opinions, and had an unsatisfactory response.

I saw the conditions that teachers have to satisfy in order to qualify when an Aussie teacher was updating to UK standards, and it was quite clear what was expected of an understanding of science, even then, and it was not an understanding which included any leeway to teach creationism.

Scrolling through the TV channels while resetting my TV decoder, we came across Horrible Histories Karaoke (on one of the odd numbers at the end 309, or something) - this is absolutely drop dead brilliant and up there with the Pythons' philosophers, and why it is lurking where the adults who would fully appreciate it can't, I don't know. Anyway, along with Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Diogenes parodying the Monkees, it had Darwin wandering about Downe House and other places discussing his studies and their effects in quite interesting detail.

Penny