'Peace & Love' Before Original Sin?

The controversy over creation and evolution in Brazil has never had the “culture war” status it has in the United States. Considering that most Brazilians (around 70%) are Catholics, and the Catholic Church has never forbidden its faithful to study Darwin’s theory, this discussion has been dormant until late 2008, when it was triggered by the decision of a Presbyterian school in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, to include creationism in science classes for elementary school students. Before that, Intelligent Design books like Michael Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box had been published in Brazil but not widely publicized. After the Mackenzie school affair, however, media has given some press to Young Earth Creationists, but not much compared to the attention given to scholars who would discredit creationist theories.