Cornish-Bowden Athel, Cárdenas María Luz
Laboratoire de Bioénérgétique et Ingénierie des Protéines, CNRS, Marseille, France.
Biol Res. 2007;40(2):113-22. doi: 10.4067/s0716-97602007000200002. Epub 2007 Nov 21.
Most biologists outside the USA and a few other countries, like Australia and Canada, are under the impression that the threat to the teaching of biology represented by creationism does not concern them directly. This is unfortunately no longer true: the recent growth of creationism, especially in its pseudo-scientific manifestation known as "intelligent design", has been obvious in several countries of Western Europe, especially the UK, Germany and Poland, and it is beginning to be noticeable in Brazil, and maybe elsewhere in Latin America. The problem is complicated by the fact that there are not just two possibilities, evolution and creationism, because creationism comes in various incompatible varieties. Turkey is now a major source of creationist propaganda outside the USA, and is especially significant in relation to its influence on Muslim populations in Europe. The time for biologists to address the creationist threat is now.
美国以外的大多数生物学家以及其他一些国家（如澳大利亚和加拿大）的生物学家都认为，神创论对生物学教学构成的威胁与他们没有直接关系。不幸的是，现在情况已并非如此：神创论最近有所抬头，尤其是其被称为“智能设计”的伪科学表现形式，在西欧的几个国家，特别是英国、德国和波兰已很明显，而且在巴西以及拉丁美洲的其他地方也开始引起注意。问题因以下事实而变得复杂：不只有两种可能性，即进化论和神创论，因为神创论有各种互不相容的变体。土耳其现在是美国以外神创论宣传的一个主要源头，而且就其对欧洲穆斯林人口的影响而言尤其重要。生物学家应对神创论威胁的时候到了。
