THE delicate truce between religion and science that built modern society as we know it is over. Now, after more than a century of fractious co-existence, the gloves are off. And its getting offensive.

The controversial theory of creationism - which sets out that God made the world just a few thousand years ago - is butting heads with science, not just in the "Bible belt" heartland of America but also in Australia.

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