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Sat 02 Feb 2009A row that goes all the way back to creation
WHEN THE Ulster Museum in Belfast closed several years ago for a major makeover, curators didn’t plan on a blazing row in advance of the grand reopening over plans to host a Darwin exhibition in its new science galleries.
But as the museum gears up for business again in the summer, it says it has no intention of slotting in Adam and Eve alongside Charles Darwin – despite born-again Christians in the North demanding that the new evolutionary science exhibits be offset with a literal reading of the origins of life straight from Genesis I in the Bible.
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