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"The content of school textbooks of Greek religion used these last few years has been examined. The article seeks if the discourses of scientific and religious truth –particularly those about the origin of living species – are presented as competitors or not. Representations which seem to be related in competitions are studied: the discourse is or not shown as a truth, the nature of this truth is or not considered; the discourses are compared or not, the nature of this comparison is or not considered, and finally, one of the two discourses is prominent over the other one. By taking support on a theoretical model developed by Wolfs, content analysis shows that, even if the discourses of the truth are explicitly presented as immense and non-competitors, some representations promote the need for indivisibility between the two. The primacy of the religious discourse on the scientific one is transmitted in a vague manner during the last years of secondary education."