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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: 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.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory