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Turkish Government to Remove Evolution From High School Curriculum

posted by mrpg on Tuesday January 31 2017, @11:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the god-is-pleased dept.

maxwell demon writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 1) by kanweg on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:19PM

    by kanweg (4737) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:19PM (#461312)

    Of course god does not create individual rain drops. They form when the conditions of certain physical laws are met. So, actually, no god is necessary. Left alone your or their's.

    Oh, you want to state that the physical laws are created? Well, if there is something, there has to be some rule. Even no rule is a rule.

    Oh, now we're at how did something get there? Well, I don't know. Just like you don't know how the gods came into existence. And how they arose from nothing.

    Bert