 A final brief (fourth) comment is that increasingly the struggle against Creationism and its various offspring is rapidly becoming a world-wide struggle. Leading historian of the Creationism movement, Ronald Numbers (2006), is particularly concerned about this fact. Not only do we find Creationism on the rise in countries like the Netherlands (where, with its large conservative Protestant population, such a rise is not altogether unexpected) but we find enthusiasm in non-Christian cultures, especially in cultures where Islam is a major factor. The exact reasons for such a rise have, as yet, been barely explored, but Numbers is surely right in thinking that theology probably plays but a minor role, and more sociological factors—dislike of the hegemony of the West and the role that science and technology play in such dominance—are probably very significant. 