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It is a very worrying trend,’ he said, ‘and I think a lot of it has come over from [[United States|America]] and [[Australia]].’<ref>http://creation.com/growth-of-creation-science-in-uk-worries-prof-dawkins</ref>}}
It is a very worrying trend,’ he said, ‘and I think a lot of it has come over from [[United States|America]] and [[Australia]].’<ref>http://creation.com/growth-of-creation-science-in-uk-worries-prof-dawkins</ref>}}
== Creation science and Grassroots activism - Question evolution! campaign ==
''For more information please see:'' [[Question evolution! campaign]]
The [[Question evolution! campaign]], launched by the [[Bible|biblical]] [[creation]] organization [[Creation Ministries International]], is a worldwide "[[grassroots|grass-roots]] movement to challenge the anti-[[Christianity|Christian]] [[dogma]] of [[evolution]]".<ref>[http://creation.com/question-evolution Question evolution! campaign]</ref> The focus of the Question evolution! campaign is on 15 questions that evolutionists cannot answer.<ref>[http://creation.com/question-evolution Question evolution! campaign]</ref> The campaign will be primarily conducted in the [[United States]], the [[United Kingdom]], [[Canada]], [[Europe]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[Singapore]] and [[South Africa]].<ref>http://creation.com/question-evolution</ref>
In May of 2011, [[Creation Ministries International]] and the [[Traditional Values Coalition]] decided to jointly initiate a question evolution campaign which encourages to students and others to "question the evolutionary [[pseudoscience]] peddled to them" and to wear anti-evolution clothing and pass out Question evolution! tracts within their schools and community. The Traditional Values Coalition is a [[church]] [[lobby|lobbying]] organization that lobbies for over 43,000 [[United States|American]] churches.
=== Question evolution! campaign and Texas ===
[[File:286px-Map of USA TX.svg.png|right|thumbnail|400px|[[Texas]] is a very influential state in the [[United States]] when it comes to [[biology]] textbooks.<ref>http://www.utne.com/Politics/Right-Wing-Activists-Rewrite-US-Textbooks-6418.aspx</ref> A supporter of [[Creation Ministries International]] with a large Christian YouTube audience has declared he is going to aggressively promote the [[Question evolution! campaign]] in Texas.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmAn3M8r0I</ref>
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The popular [[Christian]] [[YouTube]] producer, [[Shockofgod]], has vowed to promote the Question evolution! campaign "full throttle" in the state of [[Texas]] due to its large influence on textbooks throughout the United States.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmAn3M8r0I</ref> Shockofgod is an ex-[[atheism|atheist]] and his channel features many anti-[[atheism]] videos and has received millions of channel views since its inception.
In 2010, the ''Utne Reader'' declared concerning Texas's influence on national textbooks:
{{cquote|The politicized textbooks would be a problem just inside Texas, but economic factors have given the state a huge influence over textbooks throughout the country. Unlike many other states, Texas makes the decisions on a state level on what books local school districts can buy. So when the state makes a decision on what books to purchase for its 4.7 million high schoolers, publishers take notice. The only bigger market for textbooks in the country is [[California]], a state whose budget is in such disarray, it announced that it won’t be buying new books until 2014. In the meantime, an anonymous industry executive told Washington Monthly, “publishers will do whatever it takes to get on the Texas list,” even if that means caving in to right-wing activists.<ref>http://www.utne.com/Politics/Right-Wing-Activists-Rewrite-US-Textbooks-6418.aspx</ref>}}
Texas is expected to purchase $1 billion in textbooks in 2012-13.<ref>http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/texas-influence-on-textbooks-could-wane-336909.html</ref>
In addition, Shockofgod has challenged Texas YouTube atheists [[Matt Dillahunty]] and [[AronRa]] to answer the 15 questions for evolutionists which are featured in Creation Ministries International's Question Evolution campaign.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmAn3M8r0I</ref>
== Creation Science and Genetic Programs and Biological Information ==
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