Uproar in Turkey over removing evolution from biology class

[TomSea]

Uproar in Turkey over removing evolution from biology class
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY, Associated Press

ISTANBUL –  Students in Turkey are returning to school Monday where they will be taught evolution for the last time in their biology classes. Next fall, evolution and Charles Darwin will be scrapped from their textbooks.

Turkey has announced an overhaul of more than 170 topics in the country's school curriculum, including removing all direct references to evolution from high school biology classes.

The upcoming changes have caused uproar, with critics calling them a reshaping of education along the conservative, Islam-oriented government's line. Opposition parties and unions have organized protests against the changes, demanding that Turkey provide a scientific, secular education for its students. Lawmakers have also opposed the new curriculum in parliament.

Continued at: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/09/17/uproar-in-turkey-over-removing-evolution-from-biology-class.html

[Oceander]

Creationism is ecumenical.  Who knew?

[Guivre]

"Ecumenical" nice try.

This will only make the brain drain worse.

I do not like the EU, and I do not care for Turkey, but when Turkey was thinking EU it was a lot more palatable.