Anyway , good news , although I ' m surprised they didn ' t have such a regulation before . I think it ' s fair to say that there are virtually no schools in the UK that have been promoting creationism . The reason this law now exists is because of a controversy involving schools in a particular part of England run by fundamentalist Muslims that were teaching it . It was a fairly small scale problem , but disturbing enough that the government needed to take action to prevent it from reoccurring . The only reason I can imagine that no legislation existed before is because , in this country , the idea of teaching creationism in schools is considered so ass backwards that nobody ever thought it could possibly be going on before this incident came to light .