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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @02:29PM
Turkey is the northern part of the old Caliphate.
There are groups trying to get the southern parts back together, and the Turkish leaders want to be part of the fun. The major disagreement being on who gets to be caliph. Of course either side sees themselves as the new leaders.
The groups trying to get the southern parts back together... We call them ISIS.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @03:59PM
Time to Liberate Constantinople. DEUS VULT!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:29PM
Because that worked so well last time, riiiight?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...