"It’s not a matter of setting religious faith against science, but it is necessary to prevent faith from opposing science": Anne Brasseur, Luxembourg representative, drew up the resolution approved by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which invited the governments of the 47 member states to "strongly" oppose the teaching of creationism in European schools. During the assembly, the debate was lively. The resolution vote split the assembly: 48 votes in favour and 25 against. The speeches of those who accused creationism of not having a scientific basis were numerous. According to them, creationism would deny "the evolution of the species through natural selection". "The first target of contemporary creationism somebody said during the assembly in Strasbourg, – essentially with Christian or Muslim matrix, is teaching. Creationists struggle for their theses to appear in school programmes. But creationism cannot be understood as a scientific discipline". According to the speaker, the risk of confusing the concepts of conviction, faith and science, in the heads of the young, would be high. "The theory of evolution has nothing to do with God’s revelation. It is built starting from facts". The resolution points out "cases" of creationism support in several countries, including Germany, Belgium, France, Poland, Italy, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.
