Not only in America, teaching evolution is under attack. Indeed, future Turkish children will likely not learn about evolution in school, as soL international reports:
İsmet Yılmaz, the Minister of National Education in Turkey on Friday announced the new curriculum draft for school. After the draft is finalized, textbooks will be published based on the new draft to be used starting from 2017-2018 academic year.
The new curriculum draft brings some radical changes:
[...] Evolution Theory is excluded from Biology courses. The related unit named "The Origins of Life and the Evolution" is replaced with "Living Beings and Environment".
This is actually not the first strike against evolution in Turkey:
In 2013, the government had made a regulation, which let the Intelligent Design model to be included in the curriculum besides the Evolution Theory.
Also at Turkish Minute: Gov't removes evolution theory from new school curriculum
Related: What is Turkey's problem with Darwin?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @02:25PM
Thank you for the last link in TFS, everyone should take a look at it. I liked the following quote a lot:
Bayraktar explains that for Muslims, evolution can be viewed as a process preordained by God to create species through natural means, just like God “creates” rain through natural means that are detectable by meteorology.
A simple way to explain that scientific facts can coexist with religious beliefs. Very nice!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 31 2017, @03:20PM
Science is just the study of God's creations. :^)
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:17PM
The Big Bang is the brightest thing that ever happened. That incredibly bright event should illuminate the entire sky. The entire universe.
Oh, wait. It does. The Big Bang created space. The universe is still expanding. Space is stretching. In the time of 13.7 billion years, as space stretches that light waves of that brilliant light have stretched with the space containing those light waves. As light waves stretch, they are lower frequency. Thus the bright light is the cosmic microwave background radiation that is everywhere in the entire sky.
I suppose one could do the math for what the wavelength change would be based on an understanding of the size of the universe at the moment that the energy was in the form of visible light soon after the big bang.
Let there be light.
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(Score: 1) by kanweg on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:19PM
Of course god does not create individual rain drops. They form when the conditions of certain physical laws are met. So, actually, no god is necessary. Left alone your or their's.
Oh, you want to state that the physical laws are created? Well, if there is something, there has to be some rule. Even no rule is a rule.
Oh, now we're at how did something get there? Well, I don't know. Just like you don't know how the gods came into existence. And how they arose from nothing.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by NewNic on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:58PM
It's a completely pointless argument.
How about another: the universe was created about 6000 years ago, and it was made to look like it is billions of years old and created following a big bang.
The interesting thing about these arguments is that they have no utility. Even if you take them as true, we should still attempt to understand the processes that have formed the world as we see it, even if those processes took billions of years, or were the result of a massive creation event that was intended to fool us.
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