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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, Touché) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday January 31 2017, @05:25PM
Hmm, I don't think your metaphor makes much sense. It's not like this:
Deep end == learning evolutionary biology
Shallow End == religious dogma
It's more like this:
Evolutionary biology == deep end
Basic biology == shallow end
religious dogma == trying to learn to swim by banging plucking your eyebrows.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday January 31 2017, @10:55PM
Subject drift. We're talking past each other. You're talking about a biology class curriculum on the deep or shallow end and I'm replying to OP claiming it would be a teachable moment with respect to rational decision making on the deep or shallow end.
Because all debates about evolution end in a rational resolution LOL. Well, it would be nice, however incredibly unlikely.