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I think the situation is different in the UK. I've never come across a person who disbelieves evolution. It would be equivalent to a flat-earther or person who genuinely thinks political figures are lizard folk.

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Yeah, I mean they probably exist in the UK, but there is never an attempt to teach anything else but evolution in state schools like I believe there is in parts of the USA.

The UK does have a Creation Science Movement[0]. My partner and I unwittingly stumbled into their Genesis Expo[1] in Portsmouth the other year – we blindly walked in without noticing the building's name or any paraphernalia, just "ooh, look, fossils". Only when inside did we realise it was full AND THIS IS WHY EVOLUTION IS WRONG stuff.

[0] https://csm.org.uk/

> Founded in 1932 as “The Evolution Protest Movement” by a small group of Christians concerned by the propaganda that was promoting the theory of evolution as if scientifically proven

[1] https://csm.org.uk/genesis-expo/

The UK has a decently high number of Jehovas Witnesses who (based on the stuff on leaflets they've put through my door) definitely don't seem to follow mainstream science on evolution.

Aye I don't deny such people exist in the UK, but if they tried to get schools to change their curriculum, they would not be given the time of day like folk in the USA.

I have been here (it's not far from where I live): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark_Zoo_Farm It's certainly an experience (and the animals don't seem too bothered about the whole creationism thing)!

Plenty of the more fundamental religious believe in creationism. And many more do not actually believe in natural selection element of evolution, more evolution guided by the hand of god (at least in my experience of talking to others).

Try evolutionary psychology or gene evolution theory. UK is full of nutjobs.

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