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Of course, this is a British publication and so this wouldn't have occurred to the headline editor. It certainly didn't occur to me until you mentioned it.

Most Brits would read that as disarray about the timeline of human evolution, not a challenge to the 'story'.

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[previously-deleted comment]: I wonder what it's like to live in a country where you don't have to give a second thought to statements based on potentially massive differences in beliefs about the age of the universe.

Turn that question around - "I wonder what it's like to live in a country where you don't have to give a second thought to statements derived from scientific investigation rather than religious dogma then move to the US?'

I can answer that one for you. It's shocking. I had no idea, nor do I believe that most Europeans have any idea, just what a strong hold primitive interpretations of religion still holds over a huge percentage of a developed first world society.

The US is economically first world but cognitively third world :)

Sadly we do have creationists in the UK, as this recent story demonstrates: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/oct/11/jewish-scho...

I live[d] in Sweden. There has been lots of immigration. You can describe the present situation like that the Social democrat party is actively courting the religious muslim vote and pushing homophobia and anti semitism under the carpet. The press isn't so interested in looking at this, either.

This has been coming slowly for 5-10 years. It wouldn't surprise me if tolerance for denial of evolution of humans comes in a few more years.

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Recently I picked up a video game called El-Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. The game itself is good, and a little weird, but not terribly remarkable; picture playing Devil May Cry while on acid. Its most striking feature, to me, was the disclaimer at the beginning: something like "This game was based on ancient religious texts and was developed by a multicultural, multiethnic team."

I found it a bit of a queer commentary on our culture that video games marketed in North America needed a disclaimer that they weren't preaching or taking a religious stance.

I think I have seen the same disclaimer in other games. Assassin's creed possibly?

Indeed. A number of Ubisoft titles including all of the AC games that I'm aware of have such a disclaimer before the title screen.

I watched documentary about Egyptian monuments. It was very good, it even included village where workers lived. But for some reason authors added Mount Sinai.

@jcromartie — Put it this way: my ten year old would laugh at anyone who thought the universe was only a few thousand years old as would his 8-year-old brother.

@jcromartie Why did you delete your comment? I thought it was insightful. I don't live in a world where we worry about such things. Just knowing that you do is interesting.

I didn't want it to get too political.

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