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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, @06:47PM
While I'm Christian by faith I do not believe that only one side should be taught and am against it. I think there are interesting arguments to be made on all sides of the debate and I think students should get some exposure to them. I'm not threatened by anything that is taught because I have the humility to acknowledge that I don't have all the answers and I find extremists that try to pretend that their position can't be disputed to be insecure and to hold an indefensible position. Science should be about being challenged and teaching only one side of an issue is not science. It's propaganda and indoctrination.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:18PM
I would agree to teaching your side of things if there was scientific evidence (like for real not pesudo science that jumps to conclusions) that show it might be a reasonable possibility. Due to the fact that religion is carefully designed so it is not falsifiable I strenuously object to it being taught in science class.
You want to teach it in school take it to comparative religion 101, and leave it out of biology 101.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:30PM
Science is the study of reality. Metaphysical phenomenon are outside the realm of science and have no place in a science classroom.
Any "side of an issue" that does a poor job of explaining observable facts or fails to meet the basic requirements of a hypothesis or theory does not deserve to take time away from the prevailing theory.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @09:39PM
There being the difference. A Christian may be humble. A muslim must kill to silence a critic
(Score: 1) by Lester on Tuesday January 31 2017, @09:46PM
Evolution is science, if is someday it's proved to be wrong, it will be proved by the science itself.
Creationism is religion and should be tought in the suject of religion with other religious matters like prayers, rites, Bible or Coran or whatever religion Holly text.
But never ever in biology subject.