{{Orthodox activists have stormed Moscow’s Darwin Museum, tossing leaflets with creationist slogans into the lobby and planting a “God Created the World!” flag on the roof.}}<\/p>\n
The event, organized by the God’s Will movement, was held on Sunday to mark the passing of 7,522 years since the creation of the world. <\/p>\n
According to the group’s official website, the movement seeks “to fulfill the commandments of Christ through civil activism.”<\/p>\n
One participant, Dmitry Tsorionov, said of the event on Twitter: “Checkmate, atheists! 7,522 summers from the creation of the world, creationists have seized the Darwin Museum!”<\/p>\n
In a video posted on YouTube, activists can be seen in large groups singing hymns, wearing T-shirts denouncing the theory of evolution and proclaiming creationism, and throwing papers with religious slogans into the lobby \u2014 one of which read, “God created cats.”<\/p>\n
Witnesses later reported that the activists picked up all the leaflets after themselves and even snatched them back from museum workers who had gathered them. <\/p>\n
None of the activists were detained. A police spokesman on Monday declined to comment.<\/p>\n
This is not the first such occupation-style protest by Orthodox activists. They have made a name for themselves in recent months by raiding various venues that they consider blasphemous. <\/p>\n
Last August, the director of Moscow’s Museum of Erotic Art reported that “Orthodox militants” barged into the museum holding a brick and a Bible.<\/p>\n
Just days before that, an event in support of Pussy Riot at Teatr.doc was disrupted by Orthodox activists who stormed in with a television crew filming as they denounced the theater event.<\/p>\n
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