Turkey drops Darwin's theory on evolution in schools

[Benny]

Hi all,

Found this bit of news this morning. Turkey will no longer teach children about Darwin's theory on evoulution. The reason is that the theory is "controversial".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06 ... -ministry/

A nice weekend to you all,
Benny

[Piling]

For a long time, Gulen Schools and religious teaching have tried to ban DarwinNow, it's done.

NEVER trust any religion for supporting science

[Anthea]

The move is part of what secular critics describe as a creeping strain of Islamism throughout Turkey’s once proudly secular state.

A group of Turkish academics criticised the move saying that it put Turkey in the same category as Saudi Arabia, where the deeply religious curriculum forbids the teaching of evolution.

Erdogan is turning Turkey back 100s of years to the dark ages