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posted by mrpg on Tuesday January 31 2017, @11:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the god-is-pleased dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Tuesday January 31 2017, @03:13PM

    by inertnet (4071) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @03:13PM (#461242) Journal

    The question is, do you want to teach kids to make rational decisions in their life, or destroy their ability to do so?

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday January 31 2017, @04:20PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 31 2017, @04:20PM (#461274)

    Continuing in Devils Advocate mode, its the classic teach a kid how to swim by tossing in the deep end or the shallow end. Surely the firestorm of evolution would be tossing the kid in the deep end, we can probably agree on that. Perhaps teaching the same skills in a much more mellow scene of scientific environmentalism might teach more skills. "Is it rational to poop in your own drinking water? Lets talk this one out in class discussion." is probably much less emotional riot producing than "BTW your religious leader authority figure is an idiot"

    Or an alternative Devils Advocate reply might be that we've infantilized adults such that if they're not rational decision makers by the time they're in high school they're never gonna be one, OR try the opposite of high school kids are famous for making dumb irrational decisions about violence sex drugs school friends enemies romance and damn near everything else so giving them another beach to fail when storming it isn't very helpful. The kids who are trying to figure out "Eh, heroin, what could possibly go wrong?" are just going to F up evolution vs creationism anyway. They got enough stress on them already.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:25PM

      by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:25PM (#461317) Journal

      Hmm, I don't think your metaphor makes much sense. It's not like this:

      Deep end == learning evolutionary biology
      Shallow End == religious dogma

      It's more like this:

      Evolutionary biology == deep end
      Basic biology == shallow end
      religious dogma == trying to learn to swim by banging plucking your eyebrows.

      • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday January 31 2017, @10:55PM

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 31 2017, @10:55PM (#461475)

        Subject drift. We're talking past each other. You're talking about a biology class curriculum on the deep or shallow end and I'm replying to OP claiming it would be a teachable moment with respect to rational decision making on the deep or shallow end.

        Because all debates about evolution end in a rational resolution LOL. Well, it would be nice, however incredibly unlikely.