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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 VLM on Tuesday January 31 2017, @10:57PM
As a fellow Demon yourself, Maxwells in particular, you can see how as a Devil's Advocate I am obligated to point out that evolution isn't useless, just less useful than the proposed replacement in the curriculum.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @08:20PM
Ugh, take your backwards ideologies and stuff em' in the closet. Maybe you can keep the door closed the rest of your life and let the rest of us be free to make humanity better instead of falling back on fear of the unknown to maintain religious power. Evolution is no longer a theory except by the strictest scientific interpretation, and that in no way furthers your case. Only backwards bumpkins or educated morons think evolution is a progressive conspiracy and public education would be doing a disservice by not teaching it. The search for truth, where we came from, where we're going, all that stuff that religion likes to take over, well evolution is a pretty big part of humanity's history. Once your sky fairy has evidence equal to evolution, THEN we can talk.
PS: I realize you're not dumb like the full bore creationists, just apparently sympathetic to their cause, but they deserve no quarter. They can teach their children their own beliefs, but don't try bring that stupidity into public education.