Don't get your children educated in South Korea.

[Darwinian]

Creationist success in South Korea?

http://ncse.com/news/2012/06/creationist...rea-007434

[frankiej]

I just puked a little.

[Ace Otana]

Great, more lies being taught to the young. As if we didn't have enough uneducated people in the world.
Great work creationists, that's once step towards the dark ages and a step away from science and reason.

[Brian37]

Holy fucking shit! South Korea? How is it a country that doesn't have a history of Christianity suddenly sucks up to that crap?

The only thing I can think is they love the west for defending them to the point of Stockholm syndrome.

To the South Koreans reading this, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't go here. You guys are kicking our ass in education and technology, why would you allow our fundies to drag you down to their comic book level?

The west has it's Kool Aid drinkers, please don't drink our poison. We have a hard enough time containing it here, we don't want it to spread.

[Anomalocaris]

The success of fundamentalist christianity in South Korea, rather unique amongst establoshed Far Eastern cultures, could perhaps be explained by the standard of inner intellectual integrity with respect to scientific fact exhibited by the majority of population.

In early 2000s, Professor Hwang Woo-suk of Seoul National University claimed multiple breakthroughs in the field of Stem Cell research. His supposed successes appeared to put him in the lead in the field of stem cell reseach. He was lionized in the Korean press and showered with accolades for appearently putting at least one field of Korean basic science reseach into a position of global leadership position.. He was give the rather cringe inducing title of "Chief National Scientist" of Korea. He was idolized as a symbol of Korean national greatness.

As it turns out, he fabricated his most important experiments. His progress was fake. His fraudulence was uncovered by an academic committee at Seoul National University. The public response in South Korea was startling, and rather revealing. Rather than vilify Hwang the fraudest for the deceit and for what is effectivbely embezzlement of of goverment research funds, the public overwhelmingly vilified the academic committee for disclosing the fraud. The public opinion was Hwang's fraud was patroitic because it put Korean stem cell research on the map. The academic committee memebers, on the other hand, were deemed to be traitorous because by exposing the fraud, they strip South Korea of its apperent glory, however little that could truly be deserved due to lack of real progress.

This overt contempt for truth and lust for even the most undeniably fraudulent of glories would seem make for rather fertile grounds for as fraudulent a religion as christianity.

[Jackalope]

How is it a country that doesn't have a history of Christianity suddenly sucks up to that crap?

Umm, what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Korea

[Autumnlicious]

Holy fucking shit! South Korea? How is it a country that doesn't have a history of Christianity suddenly sucks up to that crap?

Because it's not just Christians who like their creation myths.

The only thing I can think is they love the west for defending them to the point of Stockholm syndrome.

Bitch, please. They're doing what they do because it ties well enough into their ideology.

It's not always about the West.

To the South Koreans reading this, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't go here. You guys are kicking our ass in education and technology, why would you allow our fundies to drag you down to their comic book level?

Actually, Finland is kicking ass in education and the West is kicking ass in intellectual property and innovation. All the thin-film solar panel research comes from the US, for example.

Mind you, the Finnish school system is totally different from the South Koreans.

The west has it's Kool Aid drinkers, please don't drink our poison. We have a hard enough time containing it here, we don't want it to spread.

It's not our poison.

It's the poison of one large religious group getting it's ideology over facts.

That happens everywhere.

[Minimalist]

I think it is a plot by the US Education Department. Since we can't get our own students to put down their fucking I-phones long enough to actually study science we have come up with a way to stop these Asian assholes from passing us by.


BWAHAHAHAHA.....your tax dollars at work!

[Brian37]

Because it's not just Christians who like their creation myths

So? If a lifeguard pulls you out of the ocean, and saves you from drowning, does that mean because you have superstitions you coddle and adapt the lifeguard's superstitions?

Creation myths have always existed. But this is a case of Korea look at us as inspiration to justify their own superstitions.

The disease of all of human history isn't about labels, it is the flaw of evolution in conformation bias. Get enough people to pat you on your back about any topic, a cliff is nearby for all to be yanked off of.

[Autumnlicious]

So? If a lifeguard pulls you out of the ocean, and saves you from drowning, does that mean because you have superstitions you coddle and adapt the lifeguard's superstitions?

Creation myths have always existed. But this is a case of Korea look at us as inspiration to justify their own superstitions. (Moros Note -- positive assertion)

The disease of all of human history isn't about labels, it is the flaw of evolution in conformation bias. Get enough people to pat you on your back about any topic, a cliff is nearby for all to be yanked off of.

Show me where you discovered that South Korea has been inspired by the United States on this topic and elucidate on how. Be sure to illustrate the magnitude and importance that supports your claims.

I am most interested in this analysis.