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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 bzipitidoo on Wednesday February 01 2017, @02:53AM
> news media, who make their needed $ selling stories
Took me a long time but I figured out some time ago that the media is far more biased towards drama than left or right. Drama sells. Fight! Fight! Fight!
> There are many liars who call themselves "christian" and make a bad name and reputation for Christianity.
This is also a problem in science. And anything with a good reputation and lots of respect. All kinds of charlatans and cranks would love to be regarded as scientists. Scientists use various means for weeding out the garbage, such as peer review. They aren't perfect, but they've been fairly successful.
Inspiring story about Indonesia. Keep it up! I hope your cheek doesn't get too sore.