The dangers of creationism in education are title and subject of a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , which held its first session in Strasbourg on 10 August 1949, can be considered the oldest international parliamentary assembly with a pluralistic composition of democratically elected members of parliament established on the basis of an...

 (PACE) resolution and two reports of 2007. Initially, in 2006 several delegates of the assembly suggested to adopt a recommendation on this theme. During drafting, the report and draft resolution was criticised by the European Center for Law and Justice; it was returned by PACE to its Committee on Culture, Science and Education for revision with 63 votes against 46, at the request by Luc Van den Brande

Luc Van den Brande

Luc Van den Brande is a Flemish politician, member of the CD&V and was Minister-president of Flanders from 21 February 1992 until 13 July 1999. He took the initiative to create the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology...

. After the revision by a new rapporteur and several amendments made by the Assembly, the resolution was adopted, by 48 votes against 25.

Links

• "The dangers of creationism in education" PACE resolution 1580 (2007) adopted 4 October 2007
• Minutes of the PACE sitting on October 4, 2007 and voting results on the resolution and amendment
• Report "The dangers of creationism in education", PACE working document no. 11375 by Anne Brasseur
  Anne Brasseur
  Anne Brasseur is a Luxembourgian politician.Brasseur was born in the city of Luxembourg. She obtained a graduate degree in psychology in 1975 after studies at the universities in Tübingen and Mannheim...
  
   (based on an earlier report by Guy Lengagne) 17 September 2007.
• Report "The dangers of creationism in education", PACE working documents no. 11297 Guy Lengagne (fr) 8 June 2007