Turkey to stop teaching evolution

[downbeatplumb]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40384471

On Wednesday, the head of the education ministry's curriculum board Alpaslan Durmuş announced that a section on Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution would be excluded from biology textbooks in the ninth grade (14 and 15 year olds) from next year on.
Students are "too young to understand 'controversial subjects'", he said, adding that the topic will be delayed until undergraduate study.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already approved the proposed changes to the national curriculum, which are expected to be published next week after the Muslim Eid ending the fasting month of Ramadan.

Mr Erdogan has already stated several times his goal of raising pious generations and Deputy PM Numan Kurtulmus had once described the theory of evolution as archaic.

So once again religion drags the world backwards.

Sometimes I despair of people.

[zebo-the-fat]

Welcome to the return of the dark ages

[Alex K]

Hmm, in the 50s and 60s we imported all those workers from Turkey. Maybe now we can import all their scientists. Muaha

[brewer]

Betsy DeVos got to them. I KNEW IT!

[downbeatplumb]

I see Min beat me to mentioning this in another thread. Ninja'd again.

[WinterHold]

I see Min beat me to mentioning this in another thread. Ninja'd again.

Yesterday; I was "Samuraized".
Ha   ha   ha.
Lord "Nobonaga" had an "Oda" which took us to a debate that ended with the Samurai attempt. I just don't like "Oda"s.

Seriously though; I think evolution is quite believable, even if an Islamic belief was present. The creation of "Adam" included the following verse:

Sura 15, Page 263, The Quran:
( 26 )   And We did certainly create man out of clay from an altered black mud.
( 27 )   And the jinn We created before from scorching fire.
( 28 )   And [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, "I will create a human being out of clay from an altered black mud.
( 29 )   And when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My [created] soul, then fall down to him in prostration."

The proportioning and the breathing of soul are not defined or known in detail: they can take billions of years, millions, nobody knows but God.

It's quite strange and also rash to immediately claim full knowledge of both of these processes. Eventually; one might be in serious trouble if Evolution was how God made man, generation after generation.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I wonder if they'll stop vaccinations?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

So in Turkey evolution is now BS but the belief in golems is encouraged. That will be a good place for the giant asteroid to hit.

[chimp3]

Turkey can now join the U.S. as a country that will not be producing the next generation of important scientists.