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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: 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.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.