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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 NewNic on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:43PM
While I would like to believe you are right about this, I don't think you are. The founders talked about religious freedom, but the early colonists didn't come to create a land where there was religious freedom, instead, their goal was much narrower: freedom to practice their own brand of religion.
I don't think that they cared about other people's religious freedom.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday January 31 2017, @06:29PM
. “The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
~1797 Treaty of Tripoli signed by Founding Father John Adams
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Tuesday January 31 2017, @08:46PM
What part of "early colonists" didn't you understand?
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday January 31 2017, @10:51PM
Also it was one dude's opinion which was wildly disagreed with at the time, used rhetorically in a treaty with Islamic arabs who were operating under this quote from wikipedia:
It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave;
People of the book have some protection officially under some interpretations of Islam. The USA not being like the UK or the papal states in Rome, the US isn't technically Christian, so in the treaty we're just rhetorically not BSing the arabs, yo our nation is not christian or islamic just so we're on common ground here about who we claim to be and who you think you are. So no turning around and BSing us that ships from Rhode Island are fair game but Massachusetts are safe or the other way around, no claiming people from R.I. are "people of the book" but people from NYC are not, etc.
To troll progressives you can point out that this treaty quote is analogous to how Trump saying his moslem ban is constitutional is also the controversial opinion of exactly one dude so imagine in 2500 people thinking Trump said something in 2017 therefore the prog who's being trolled must have agreed with Trump and thats how the USA always has been and always will be interpreted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @02:23AM
To troll progressives you can point out that this treaty quote is analogous
No, you can not, you fucking Nazi!
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday January 31 2017, @11:13PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:00PM
There is a serious of PBS documentary called Religion in America if I am not mistaken. It is very informative and you should investigate.
One of the things that I always remember from it is that the Catholic church was asking for the separation of church and state due to some state's schools being run by other denominations and referring to the pope as the antichrist and the whore of Babylon.
They forget that part nowadays though.