Gove has been holding this position since before his appointment. Academies and free schools thus must not teach the subject as science.

It strikes me that no-one should be teaching creationism at all. I wouldn't ever object to schools teaching children that there is such an idea as creationism, that it should be considered alongside religion, that its method contrasts utterly with the process of science in the way it reaches its conclusions and that it denies evidence and reason. Education should be about teaching children the skills to seek information in a discriminating manner and to critically and fearlessly demand and assess evidence for the alleged facts they are presented with. "Teaching creationism" implies that they are being told that there is truth in it. That is a lie. Education is never about peddling lies to children. We have a different name for that.