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A protest was organised in response to part of a display on evolution being censored following a complaint to Abington Park Museum in Northampton .

A passage in a display on Charles Darwin at the Northampton Borough Council-run museum was covered up after a complaint from a Christian nutter. The move has now sparked the Northampton Socialist Forum to decide on protest action.

As reported in the Chronicle & Echo on Thursday, four lines of text were obscured. The information in the display explained how Charles Darwin used fossils to formulate his theory of evolution, which the forum said was established scientific fact.

Patrick Markey, of the forum, said: People are entitled to have all sorts of ideas, but no right to impose them on others. This is a public museum and should respect rational scientific thought, not the ideas of some religious fundamentalists.

The National Secular Society has written to the borough council. President Terry Sanderson said: There is a global push by the so-called 'creationist movement' to undermine the theory of evolution. It is incumbent on all educators to resist this attempt to deny evidence and, in the process, retard science and progress.

Visitors to the museum are entitled to a better explanation of Darwin's world-shaping idea than the bowdlerised version you have on display at present.

Councillor Brendan Glynane, the cabinet member for museums said: There was absolutely no attempt at censorship. The text contains a factual error which could cause confusion. We have now uncovered the display board and are in the process of getting a new board produced.

The council says the revised wording will read: He used the same layers of fossils to show the slow changes that are taking place over the millennia of earth history, each small change enabling a species to adapt to the rigours of its environment – the struggle for survival, through the natural selection, leading to the survival of the fittest.

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