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urkish schoolchildren will no longer be taught about evolution, a government official has said, in another sign of the conservative direction the country is heading in under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Alpaslan Durmus, the head of curriculum for the ministry of education, said that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was “controversial” and would be removed from school programmes by 2019.
“As the students at ninth grade are not endowed with antecedents to discuss the ‘Origin of Life and Evolution’ section in biology classes, this section will be delayed until undergraduate study.”
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.
“The subjects of Science and Technology classes in elementary schools should be presented with a perspective that allows students to connect it to subjects they will encounter in future years. It should provide them with an evolutionary point of view,” the academics said in a statement.
The Quran, like the Bible, teaches that Adam and Eve were the first humans. God is said to have created Adam from Clay and then formed Eve, also known as Hawwa, from Adam.
Evolution is not widely accepted among religious Muslims in Turkey, although some liberal Islamic scholars have suggested that Darwin’s theory is not incompatible with the Quran’s teachings.
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Pakistan also removed Theory of Evolution from the Secondary School Books
Not only it was practically removed, but also criticized by saying how Human Beings could evolved through the apes. Indeed Allah sent the first Human Being directly to the Earth, and there was no evolution.
urkish schoolchildren will no longer be taught about evolution, a government official has said, in another sign of the conservative direction the country is heading in under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Alpaslan Durmus, the head of curriculum for the ministry of education, said that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was “controversial” and would be removed from school programmes by 2019.
“As the students at ninth grade are not endowed with antecedents to discuss the ‘Origin of Life and Evolution’ section in biology classes, this section will be delayed until undergraduate study.”
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.
“The subjects of Science and Technology classes in elementary schools should be presented with a perspective that allows students to connect it to subjects they will encounter in future years. It should provide them with an evolutionary point of view,” the academics said in a statement.
The Quran, like the Bible, teaches that Adam and Eve were the first humans. God is said to have created Adam from Clay and then formed Eve, also known as Hawwa, from Adam.
Evolution is not widely accepted among religious Muslims in Turkey, although some liberal Islamic scholars have suggested that Darwin’s theory is not incompatible with the Quran’s teachings.
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Pakistan also removed Theory of Evolution from the Secondary School Books
Not only it was practically removed, but also criticized by saying how Human Beings could evolved through the apes. Indeed Allah sent the first Human Being directly to the Earth, and there was no evolution.
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