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• Gaia Category Winners
  by RedBubble

  “Gaia – The Living Planet” is coming to life. All twelve people who have been involved in shortlisting and judging for the publication ha…

  “Gaia – The Living Planet” is coming to life. All twelve people who have been involved in shortlisting and judging for the publication have been deeply moved by the works submitted. If our wonderful earth has hope, it is in the hope, vision and courage displayed by all the artists who have contributed. The overall category winners are below. We think you will agree that these works capture something exceptional. In a few weeks we will have finished the design of the book. This is not a quick process as we aim to honor the work and the importance of the Gaia itself through the quality of design of the final publication. When this is complete and the book is for sale we will announce all those who are to be published. / Read more about “Gaia – The Living Planet here and more about out 9 judges here Overall Visual Art Winner Dryad by Helena Nelson-Reed / One of the judges simply commented: “stunning art”. Helena’s interest in mysticism is melded in this image with a living vitality. This image has an otherworldly quality while shedding a light on our world in the here-and-now.  / Category Winners: Photography There were two winners in the category of Photography which scored the same marks from the judges. They show us Gaia from two different, but complementary angles. In Utero by Kitsmumma / The connection between our human vulnerability and the apparent solidity of the earth that nourishes us is beautifully portrayed in this fine artwork. The Covenant by Phil Thomson / The threat of loss and the promise of new life are framed in this single, beautiful image. / Category Winner: Traditional Evadne by Nadia Turner / This image has a delicacy of touch and depth of symbolism which took our collective breath away. Category Winner: Digital Image GAIA by Charles Winslow / The use of digital art at its finest to create an image impossible by any other medium – an earth mother completely apart of her world. Overall Writing Winners / Two written works got exactly the same marks from the judges. We certainly are not going to try and separate them. They both leave echos long after they are read. Holiday by abletsandtoast is in the words of one of our judges “An amazing piece, illuminating the relationship between people and place”. Boilingdown Creek by PinkElephant is as dry as “Holiday” was cold. The diversity of Gaia fully on display. Category Winner: Poetry A Gift of Flowers by Louise Kuskovski will leave you with a strange sense of sorrow as it hints at a greater meaning. Category Winners: Short Story Again we had two winners in the short story category and rather than splitting hairs we are splitting prizes. Benwerrin Road by Rainmemory will probably catch you by delicious surprise. Storm Joy by Panda65 has a depth of humanity that warms your fingers as you read.

• RedBubble Thursday Release Notes
  by RedBubble

  It’s that time of the week again already, and this week there are two important additions to the site today. Gaia, the book, is now on…

  It’s that time of the week again already, and this week there are two important additions to the site today. Gaia, the book, is now on sale. It looks fantastic, get your copy from the RedBubbble Store. For more information, and a list of those published, please see this post. Even bigger news is that today we have launched a new take on RedBubble’s continued exploration of New Art. We see this art as a move away from art bestowed upon us to art that ultimately embraces all of us as co-equals in its creation and interpretation. The publications ‘In the Moment’ and ‘Gaia’ were part of this exploration. The new work ‘PAX’ is an online Mosaic of 16,384 images from RedBubble artists that aims for a collective beauty that is no greater than any single one of its components. It is an art work that is complete on the Web, fully harnessing the power and potential of this medium in its creation and in its display. Enjoy! - Pilgrim

• The City
  by RedBubble

  Today we released our first new site-wide challenge The City. This is…

  Today we released our first new site-wide challenge The City. This is the latest RedBubble publication where we aim to showcase the best visual and written work on the Web. A TShirt Competition is also on the way. “The City” is open to all works that explore the complex, vibrant world of concrete, glass and humanity that are urban environments all over the world. The best works will be selected for publication in “The City” to come out in November and available for sale through RedBubble. We publish these books regularly as a way for the RedBubble community to showcase their work in a professionally presented and designed book working with a copy editor. It’s one way RedBubble provides opportunities for professional development for its members. Visual works are entered directly into this challenge. from works in your portfolio and then voted on. The top works will be selected for publication. To enter written works go the group RedBubble The City and follow directions. Written works will be shortlisted and voted on by a group of judges. The top written and visual work will receive $US 250 in cash each and a $US 250 RedBubble voucher. Each of the published works will receive a $US 40 voucher to purchase work on RedBubble. We will be increasing the frequency of publication to be able to showcase more of the work on RedBubble and to cover more themes. So expect an announcement soon about what the next publication will be. We are aiming to make the publications, collectible (but affordable) which will mean relatively limited editions and consistent formatting. “Compassion” the most recent publication will be out soon.

• Wow my first published picture!!
  by Helene Kippert

  !http://images-2.redbubble.com/img/art/border:blackwithdetail/product:laminated-print/size:small/view:preview/659258-3-the-rising-goddess…

  / The Rising Goddess 5 a collaboration with Mark Peterson has made it into the Gaia publication. My first ever – I’m so excited!! Thanks to all who voted for it and to redbubble for creating such fantastic competitions! :o))

• Gaia Publication!
  by Globalphotos

  I made the Gaia publication, not quite sure as to which shot as yet…..will be a surprise !! Am totally blown away !! Thank you Red…

  I made the Gaia publication, not quite sure as to which shot as yet…..will be a surprise !! Am totally blown away !! Thank you Redbubble and to all of you for your constant support !! Am soooooooo excited !!!!! Hugs & xxx / Varinia

• CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU - Gaia - The Living Planet
  by Kitsmumma

  I want to send out a heartfelt THANK YOU to all involved in the Gaia – The Living Planet Competition and huge CONGRATULATIONS to all …

  I want to send out a heartfelt THANK YOU to all involved in the Gaia – The Living Planet Competition and huge CONGRATULATIONS to all of the winners, including me as I’ve never won anything before apart from a meat tray at the RSL. I’m very excited (still can’t quite believe it) and extremely honored to have had my work selected for the Photography category, it has made my day, which was spent in bed with the flu…........................ feeling much better now!! Again, thank you and congratulations to everyone. Sylvia xxx

• Featured in "Body Of Work"group
  by micmac

  I’m so happy and honored ...to be part of the Body Of Work group.Varinia chose twelve pic…

  I’m so happy and honored ...to be part of the Body Of Work group.Varinia chose twelve pics from my potfolio to be on the overview for a whole week…thank you so much… Gigi Varinia b.mail to the group / Hi Folks This weeks featured artist is Micmac, also known as Gigi. Twelve images have been selected for their creativity and beauty. / Gigi has limitless imagination and her images are not only beautiful but inspiring to many on Redbubble. / She has mastered capturing light and scenes of utmost tranquility. / Recently her image “The Thinker’ was published in “Gaia, The living Planet”. I invite you to view her wonderful work. Body Of Work Have a wonderful week Cheers / Varinia

• Exciting News!!
  by Macky

  The Redbubble Thursday Release Notes made me…

  The Redbubble Thursday Release Notes made me ‘fall off my chair’ this morning. Too amazing why the Gaia The Living Planet publication had to be opened on my photograph, a proud and humbling moment for me indeed. To the the selection judges, thank you and to my all my friends and watchers, I thank you all for your support and friendship. Kind regards Macky

• Please check out this website
  by Helene Kippert

  I know there are many people here who meditiate and are deeply concerned about the state of our beautiful planet. I have just come acros…

  I know there are many people here who meditiate and are deeply concerned about the state of our beautiful planet. I have just come across an amazing website that offers us a way to contribute our energy to its healing. If you have read and appreciated my poem Gaia – she is rising, if you are concerned about the rapidly deteriorating state of our beautiful home, please check out this website and read this woman’s amazing story. www.firethegrid.com/eng/home-fr-eng.htm

• FAIRIEWOMAN1 WINS GAIA-THE LIVING PLANET!!!
  by Marilyn Brown

  A very big congratulations to Helena Nelson-Reed aka FAIRIEWOMAN1 / !http://images-2.redbub…

  A very big congratulations to Helena Nelson-Reed aka FAIRIEWOMAN1 / for winning the overall visual arts prize for redbubbles latest Competition Gaia – The Living Planet. Her entry Dryad is absolutely superb and I would be hard pressed to find one single person who would say that her image doesn’t 100% percent typify the ideal of the topic. / Once again congratulations, it is well deserved!

• I'm sorry Red Bubble - but this one is quite good.
  by Danny

  / I’m sorry Red Bubble but your latest offering GAIA …

  / I’m sorry Red Bubble but your latest offering GAIA is quite a lovely presentation. / I nice mixture of words and stunning artworks. / The judges definetly got it right this time. / So thank you for the added fire protection (how did you know I never smoked myself to death last time?) but it won’t be neccessary, this one goes in the bookshelf to be pulled out in the future and admired. / Oh… the misses thinks its beautiful. / cheers / D

• "Gaia - The Living Planet" Competion !!!
  by Phil Thomson IPA

  I would just like to add my sincere congratulations to ALL the artists, photographers and writers on their work being judged and chosen a…

  I would just like to add my sincere congratulations to ALL the artists, photographers and writers on their work being judged and chosen as worthy winners in the Gaia competition. I humbly include myself in that and count it a real honour and privilege to be counted amongst such a talented group of artists in their own fields of expertise. / I count it all joy, a thrill and a real Blessing not only to have the honour of being chosen but also to be Blessed to be in the right place at the right time to witness one of the true marvels of God’s Creation and the reality of one of His Promises made to man so many years ago that has remained down through the ages as a Testament to His Goodness and Faithfulness to us. / I would also like to thank Redbubble admin. for their support and ALL those that have taken the time to view my images, especially “The Covenant”, favourite them and make such wonderful encouraging comments, they, along with the fellowship and community spirit here on RB, ALL add up to make it a worthwhile and rewarding time in my life !! Sincerely, Phil Thomson.

• Competition
  by community

  We are moving into the last day for the In The Moment publication competition. The range …

  We are moving into the last day for the In The Moment publication competition. The range and beauty of the entries is simply staggering. I have seen some proofs for the layout and design for the publication and am confident it will be one of the most beautiful art publications ever launched. The writing is complex, moving and inspirational and validates the value of being a multi-genre site. And … next Thursday the new competition launches on the theme “Gaia – The Living Planet”. If your are concerned with our planet and our complex relationship with her then sharpen your pen, camera, paintbrush and start producing work. We want with this publication to focus not only on the beauty and wonder of our Earth but also on how people interact with her – sometimes for good and sometimes for not-so-good. You will have till mid-April to submit work. Pilgrim

• Need your help!!
  by JayCougar

  Hey everyone Thanks heaps for all the support yall have given me since I joined RedBubble, I’v felt my art has really been appreciated…

  Hey everyone Thanks heaps for all the support yall have given me since I joined RedBubble, I’v felt my art has really been appreciated and now I need your help for something… I’m looking to enter two images into the Gaia – The Living Planet contest http://www.redbubble.com/groups/gaia-the-living-planet but I can’t decide which two images to enter… If you have the time I would really appreciate it if ya could take a browse through my gallery and tell me the two u like the best and feel would fit the theme… Thanks heaps for your help!!! _

• Gaia The Living Planet In The Moment Of Creation
  by kathleen

  In celebration of the choice of theme that RedBubble have chosen for their current competition (which secretly I believe was my overwhelm…

  In celebration of the choice of theme that RedBubble have chosen for their current competition (which secretly I believe was my overwhelming obsession for myth subliminally working the pipes of thought), it is right and proper for us all to bow down and worship that who we as a creative force are most inspired by. I have no statistics but an overwhelming number of artists find creativity in the earth, nature and the Great Mother herself. Gaia (or Gaea, Ge, Terra, Tellus and many other epithets for Earth) was the matriachal basis of religion in the ancient times and still transposes her all encompassing influence throughout religion, art, society and politics. The strong Mother figure as a creative energy for all to understand as the primal Earth force resonating from the Genesis. Greek myth atones for existence by recounting the stories of the evolution of the forces of creation and nature through a personification of survival, battle and dramatic (often melodramatic) saga. Great poets such as Homer, Hesiod and Aristophanes recount in verse the struggles of the forces of the light to separate from the forces of the dark. The misty spiritual spell that forms the magic of the world and universe we are all a part of. Each stage and interaction of chemistry and physics creating a fractal drama that would offshoot into a war one moment, the creation of the music of the lyre another, the worst sexual perversions followed by the most just of tortures in the misty, marshy Underworld. Gaea, no matter how far down the generational line of gods and goddesses the action was, is always honoured as the divine creative mother, which makes the competition theme even more relavent in that the notion of Gaea as a living breathing organism is so relevant in the environmental times of today. There have been massive scientific studies of the environment undertaken in the past with the very same theme. Gaea the Earth Mother along with her partner Ouranos (Heaven and Sky) are credited with the parentage of all who exist in the realm of Earth consciousness, but they were not the only Protogenoi (immortal creation spirits) to emerge from the magical bang. As the story of the creation of the cosmos goes in ancient Greek myth… The first born formed the very fabric of the universe, the mesh by which all creation is suspended, Protogenoi literally means first born in Greek. Most of them were purely elemental in form, in that they were quite literally Earth, Air, Fire and Water, however a few were described in anthropomorphic form, particualarly those spirits bound to their physical and native environment. Gaea herself emerged at the beginning of creation to from the foundation of the Universe. One of the few depicted in anthropomorphic form she was still however shown as a woman partially risen from the ground, inseparable from her element… Gaea’s siblings and children were thus spawned… Aether – the a primeval god of the mists of light which fill the upper atmosphere. Ananke – the goddess of necessity, compulsion and inevitability. She was incorporeal (spirit and not matter) and of serpentine form. She cracked open the world egg in the necessity of creation. Erebos – the immortal god of the mists of darkness which fill the upper atmosphere. His darkness was sunk into the Earth and surrounded the Underworld. Eros (not to be confused with the Eros of future generations) – god of generation. Also known as Phanes, he was the ‘driving’ force which drove the Universe into a creative frenzy. As the Immortal god of generation, the creator god, he sprung forth from the silver egg of creation at the beginning of time and set the order of the Universe. Hemera – the personification of Day, rose from the ends of Earth to scatter the darkness of Night, she was spread throughout the heavens by her Mother Nyx to allow the blue of Aether to shine on the Earth. Hydros – Water. Together with Earth they formed mud and was usually equated with the Titan god of fresh water Okeanos. Khaos – goddess of the lower air. She filled the gap between Aether in the upper air and the Earth floor. She was the mother of the other airs Erebos, Nyx, Aether and Hemera. Khronos – the immortal god of time was the first being to emerge at creation in self. He was incorporeal and was attributed with 3 heads and a serpent’s tail and circled the whole of creation. The Nesoi – The islands and rocky forms that break from the earth to protrude from the sea. Nyx – the Night. She would draw the mists of her consort Erebos over the heavens to make it dark. She was depicted as a woman with a star encrusted mantle. Okeanos – The great Earth encircling fresh water river. From him flow every river, spring and rain bearing cloud. He was a horned man with a serpentine fish instead of legs. Ouranos – The solid dome of Heaven. His form stretches from one horizon to the other, he sprung from Gaea at creation. The Ourea – The mountains, born of the Earth. Phusis – The Protogenos of nature. Mother Nature was a different spirit to Gaea and encompasses the collective spirit of creation on Earth. Pontos – The primal god of the salty sea born of Gaea. Tartaros – The Protogenos of the stormy fire pit which lay beneath the crust of the Earth. Tethys – The goddess of the flow of fresh water throughout the Earth. The form of nourishment for all of Mother Nature. Thalassa – The goddess of the surface of the sea. The tention that keeps the water liquid and separate. Born of Aether and Hemera, she mixed with the deep waters of Pontos the sea. Thesis – The Protogenos of creation itself. The goddess of all that came forth from the moment of creation itself.

• GAIA
  by Lisadee

  Thank you to Redbubble peoples for choosing my work for publication in the book ‘GAIA’ I am so pleased, humbled and honored.

  Thank you to Redbubble peoples for choosing my work for publication in the book ‘GAIA’ I am so pleased, humbled and honored.

• Can I find - Soul Mate … My Soul Mate… - Yes “ Sunilism” Imagine NOW: Heaven on Earth: By Sunil Sharma
  by Sunil Sharma

  Are you worried about losing your Love Partner / Soul Mate ? / Do not have trust each other ? / You have been cheated over and over by th…

  Are you worried about losing your Love Partner / Soul Mate ? / Do not have trust each other ? / You have been cheated over and over by the person in your life and still looking for the “ Soul Mate” to settle down. If you think you can not find your “ Soul mate” and feel helpless and lost hope of getting one, you will get one “ Soul Mate “ NOW ! Just read on please. Thanks for your Smile…..laugh….......You so pretty…... and you are lucky one to find the wisdom in this writing. If you love it … please do pass to your friends and families as they also truly deserve to share this vital information. God / Nature have asked me to pass on few things to you today. 1. You are a God /Goddess! / 2. Your soul goal is to live the life of God/Goddess Now! / 3. Check my Painting “Imagine now! Think Heavenly.. It exactly pinpoints the true vitues and important values, you have to focus now. / 4. Live the life of a God/ Goddess now by developing unconditional Love, Romance, Respect within yourself which will provide you Peace, Energy, Happiness and frequent Divine connection at least once in the morning and one in the afternoon. / 5. It is required to focus on those values 24×7 by visualisation so that it reaches your subconscious and auto pilot you for ever. You need to display close to your bed and your work place table for quick reminder. / 6. If you have a love partner ask them if they like those values and would like to develop further with you as a soul mate. If yes , give them a gift of another set of paintings. / 7. Make sure you have loving heart donate some money to needy ones.. / 8. Learn to humble and use kind words… no swearing …..Just say I love you… / 9. Trust your partner and yourself / 10. Affirm your love to them for ever no conditions as a great friend / 11. You will attract one of your friend as your soul mate. / 12. Still assure your soul mate that you will be loving & forgiving to them as no one is perfect. But be honest with each other in general… But yes … there are some secrets which you may decide not to share even with your soul mate if it will harm your relationship. / 13. Trust your soul mate and give them some private space and respect it. / 14. Surrender to God / Nature and ask for direction and support or a true friend ..like on red bubble- Sunil Sharma any time. / 15. No Alcohol or red meat .. The animal when dies secrets very harmful enzymes and Harmones under fear of their life…. so that infected animal blood when pumped by your heart goes to your mind it creates animal tendencies such as it creates Rage, Anger, Lust, Aggression and person slowly start behaving like animals and loses divine love , Respect, Romance & Respect . More drunken people make bad judgement as it undermines the brains proper functioning apart from long term addiction and negative force eg. Satanic influnce which will tear your Loving relationship apart and drift in to the darkness. So the innocent partners undergo relationship problems and can not have real soul mate who loves , can be trust worthy, and settle down together to start a loving family. / 16. Life is a journey and treat your solemate as your close friend as well and express how you feel and give them day to day support. / 17. In a nutshell provide a service to your soul mate for being with you in thick and thin of life events / 18. Develop some of the common hobbies or intersts like Sports / Games or doing Yoga together first thing in the morning or in the afternoon. / 19. Please complement and appreciate your Soul Mate each other and have private time every week like mutual massage, hugging and bonding. / 20. Be a kind, generous person and give gratitude and thank the God /Nature for what it has provided so far…Contentment is the greatest virtue… but strive for better. and a grea hope of another day to achieve more and strengthen your relationship.. / 21. Remain disease free for ever by Yoga. Do Yoga – Pranayama (breathing exercises), Hatha Yoga for body flexibility and Meditation for clarity of life purpose on the planet call Earth . / 22. Be happy in every moment in life irrespective of whatever happens and celebrate life with your Soul Mate. Here is a big plan to make each person God and Goddess on this planet Earth NOW! And to make sure that they have a Soul Mate for life in thick and thin of life events and this loving relationship will give great foundation to start a happy loving family which Love , Enjoy, live and support each other as a ideal family in which Dad and Mum and Children live as a true reflection of God , Goddess and lovely Angels on a Heaven on Earth NOW! This message is part of living life like a God /Goddress on Earth NOW ! called “Sunilism” which can be a relevant new contemporary global religion which has relevant instructions for our day today life and glues all the world religions together. All the religions of the world are great and are hundreds of thousand year old and but times have changed, global problems have changed, people are so busy but highly productive these days; they have got no time to read the holy scriptures and needs simple set of divine instructions for living their day to day busy life. “Sunilism” provides an answer, as it incorporate Body, Mind, Spirit/Live and nature integrated approach and is trying to explore those relevant instructions with help of you and all the people in this direction. Need your input so that we have some relevant & concise instruction in our time NOW! The people following “Sunilism” and of course all other sacred religions will be called as “Sunilist”. I do love all the religions and all people of the Earth equally and treat them as God or Goddess, irrespective of their faith or even Atheist are supreme to me but each and every one has universal need of love, Care, Joy and support.

• Just got my copy of Gaia The Living Planet
  by Kevin Kroeker

  I just got it today. I entered 2 images and didn’t know which on was chosen for the book. This is my image that made it in. “Alpine Oasi…

  I just got it today. I entered 2 images and didn’t know which on was chosen for the book. This is my image that made it in. Alpine Oasis I just want to say thanks to whom ever voted to have my image included… thankyou to all the judges. / / Cheers, / Kevin

• Published in Gaia Book!
  by Nolan Nitschke

  I just recieved my copy of the Gaia Book in which I am published in. My work Yosemite Lightning Strike was picked to be in the book: ...

  I just recieved my copy of the Gaia Book in which I am published in. My work Yosemite Lightning Strike was picked to be in the book: For getting published I recieved a free copy of the Gaia Book and a $100 gift certificate to Redbubble. THANK YOU REDBUBBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Gaia landing
  by jo beerens

  It is Yippee time….. Alien landing made it into the Gaia...

  It is Yippee time….. Alien landing made it into the Gaia book. A list of all the other great artists that made it into Gaia is here

• Trip Of A Lifetime!!!!
  by Carol & Kev Haberle

  I’ve just experienced the most amazing trip of a lifetime!!! I’ve been on a World Tour, a tour of Gaia – The Living Planet, from the Anta…

  I’ve just experienced the most amazing trip of a lifetime!!! I’ve been on a World Tour, a tour of Gaia – The Living Planet, from the Antarctic to the Arctic circles, to England, Ireland, Africa, Europe, Thailand, China, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, U.S.A., South America and many more destinations! I’ve even been to outer space!!! The amazing splendour of the world around us is so awesome, so inspiring!! I’ve seen wildlife I never knew existed, the fauna, the flora, seascapes, landscapes, skyscapes, monumental structures you couldn’t imagine in your wildest dreams, people of every nation, sunrises, sunsets, the moon, the stars, sights so amazing one couldn’t describe!! And the fascinating reality is in the fact that I’ve done this all with the thanks to all the wonderful members of RedBubble, I haven’t left the comfort of an ergonomic computer chair, just AWESOME!!! / Thank you to the creators of all our wonderful technology which has allowed me to experience something I could never afford to do in reality!! / But most of all, a very SINCERE THANK-YOU to all the RedBubblers who have allowed me to live out a dream!!! / Carol Haberle

• The stages of Gaea the Earth Goddess
  by dimarie

  Original painting is Acrylic on Canvas / 100×100 cm / Gaea the Earth Goddess...

  Original painting is Acrylic on Canvas / 100×100 cm / Gaea the Earth Goddess this mite be of interest to some of you? / some of the stages in the painting of gaea / roughly about six days spent on it.

• Red Bubble Prints Quality Cards
  by Elena Ray

  One of my images was included in Gaia. I just recieved my Gaia gift from Red Bubble-I spent it all on cards from both my own images and a…

  One of my images was included in Gaia. I just recieved my Gaia gift from Red Bubble-I spent it all on cards from both my own images and also from my favorites list. The print quality is truly excellent and the paper that the cards is printed on is really nice-super heavy. I am really pleased. Thank you so much Red Bubble!

• God must die so that we can live.
  by Clinton Tyree KM@

  Now that may sound like Died-again Atheist hyperbole, but I don’t say it lightly and to merely insult Christians. And it it is mainly Chr…

  Now that may sound like Died-again Atheist hyperbole, but I don’t say it lightly and to merely insult Christians. And it it is mainly Christians that it refers to since I have little first-hand experience of any other religion. I have nothing against people believing whatever nutty theories they like, but I do have serious issues in those nutty theories being given special protection within politics and education. Again I have nothing against consenting adults getting up to whatever they want so long as it harms no one else. But I’m afraid to say that is not the current state of affairs in Christianity. Even at a fundamental level of teaching children the Bible at school is too much for me. In terms of child development that equals brainwashing if it isn’t balanced out by a critique from an atheist viewpoint. And to be really honest, I don’t think that anything that cannot be proven should be taught as fact. Be it the Man in the Moon, the Bogeyman or God. But scarier still we are seeing the emergence of state funded Reg Vardy Creationist schools in the UK. Creationism is the practice of upholding that everything in the Bible regarding the origins of the planet and man are word for word correct. Yes the British taxpayer really is subsidising a school run by a used car salesman that teaches children that the planet is under 10,000 years old! That evolution is heresy! You couldn’t make that up and be believed! Now why the bold title? Well, if creationism goes unopposed, if religious tampering with science and policy goes unchecked we can be sure that we will be facing guaranteed global catastrophe. Indeed, the current science on climate change is incompatible with scripture. Gaia could not have been arrived at through creationism. Gaia is bound up with with science that holds that the planet is eons old, not millennia; that the planet is a self-regulating balance of parameters, not something cobbled together in 6 days by the will of an invisible man who appeared from nowhere. If the human race hopes to survive the terrible catastrophe we have created, the solution will not be found in the Bible. And if we want as many bright minds working on the problem as possible, state funding of Iron Age supernatural theories and Middle Eastern death cults is not a compatible strategy. A strict policy of excluding religion from schools, as opposed to to funding it from the public purse, would also go a long way to encouraging children to exercise their human right to self-determination.