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Turkey bans the teaching of evolution in its high schools
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:18 pm
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:18 pm
Evolution teaching banned in Turkey
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Ankara: Turkey is to stop teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in high schools, deeming it controversial and difficult to understand, a senior education official said, a move likely to alarm secular Turks.
Critics say President Tayyip Erdogan and the AK Party are undermining modern Turkey's secular foundations by pushing a conservative agenda, including tighter regulation of alcohol and other restrictions, since coming to power in 2002.
A chapter entitled "Beginning of Life and Evolution" will be deleted from the standard biology textbooks used in schools and the material will be available only to students who go on to university studies from age 18 or 19, Alparslan Durmus, head of the national education board said in an online address this week.
"We are aware that if our students don't have the background to comprehend the premises and hypotheses, or if they don't have the knowledge and scientific framework, they will not be able to understand some controversial issues, so we have left out some of them," he said.
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 6:19 pm
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Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:21 pm to TrueTiger
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We are aware that if our students don't have the background to comprehend the premises and hypotheses, or if they don't have the knowledge and scientific framework, they will not be able to understand some controversial issues
That's definitely Erdogan's goal. A lesser educated population will most certainly be easier to control and manipulate.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:25 pm to SCLibertarian
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That's definitely Erdogan's goal. A lesser educated population will most certainly be easier to control and manipulate.
sounds like he has a lot in common with the liberals running most of our public schools
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:26 pm to TrueTiger
salami, salami, bologna
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:32 pm to gthog61
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sounds like he has a lot in common with the liberals running most of our public schools
Liberals are the ones that don't want evolution taught?
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:46 pm to gthog61
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That's definitely Erdogan's goal. A lesser educated population will most certainly be easier to control and manipulate.
sounds like he has a lot in common with the liberals running most of our public schools
Lol. Try pretending to not being so damn partisan. You know that it's the religious right that rails against science. Hell its almost a daily thread here.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:48 pm to SCLibertarian
quote:ironic since people who buy into evolution are the greatest ignorant sheep people of all.
. A lesser educated population will most certainly be easier to control and manipulate.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 6:56 pm to airfernando
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people who buy into evolution
Even the church has evolved on evolution.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:02 pm to airfernando
quote:you could probably lay the fossils out and watch evolution happen right in front of you.
ironic since people who buy into evolution are the greatest ignorant sheep people of all.
or you could read the story written 2,500 years ago by some random person no one knows anything about and take what he/she/they wrote as an absolute and undeniable fact.
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 7:13 pm
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:09 pm to asurob1
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Lol. Try pretending to not being so damn partisan. You know that it's the religious right that rails against science. Hell its almost a daily thread here.
Liberals love evolution but don't believe in its most basic premise which is that only the fittest will survive. Why is that?
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:12 pm to Robin Masters
quote:i have no doubt that the answer will be stupid, but out of sheer morbid curiosity, what are you talking about?
Liberals love evolution but don't believe in its most basic premise which is that only the fittest will survive. Why is that?
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:14 pm to Robin Masters
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Liberals love evolution but don't believe in its most basic premise which is that only the fittest will survive. Why is that?
you're walking proof that's not always the case
This post was edited on 6/24/17 at 7:17 pm
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:17 pm to TrueTiger
If evolution should be taught then so should the subjectivity of morality. Few things get on my nerves more than people judging me when their worldview can't have morality be more than an individual preference.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:18 pm to MastrShake
i believe he means that Libs don't believe in advancement on your own merit and earning the things you have through hard work. These are basic principals of "the strong survive"
that and they are too busy scissoring to procreate and advance a bloodline
that and they are too busy scissoring to procreate and advance a bloodline
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:29 pm to FooManChoo
quote:"If"?
If evolution should be taught...
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:48 pm to MastrShake
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:50 pm to airfernando
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ironic since people who buy into evolution are the greatest ignorant sheep people of all.
Dear god.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:50 pm to TrueTiger
Erdogan needs to go. Can we get a drone on that?
Posted on 6/24/17 at 7:54 pm to airfernando
You sir are a fricking idiot. Denying evolution at this point is the equivalent of denying the sky is blue.
Posted on 6/24/17 at 8:00 pm to airfernando
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ironic since people who buy into evolution are the greatest ignorant sheep people of all.
The scary part is that this was upvoted multiple times
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