SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @07:00PM
There is a serious of PBS documentary called Religion in America if I am not mistaken. It is very informative and you should investigate.
One of the things that I always remember from it is that the Catholic church was asking for the separation of church and state due to some state's schools being run by other denominations and referring to the pope as the antichrist and the whore of Babylon.
They forget that part nowadays though.