First Russian Anti-Evolution Suit Enters Court Room

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 15, 2006 @07:08AM from the popular-thing-to-do dept.

sdriver writes "If you thought it was only the US giving Darwin a hard time, Russia has its own problems starting with evolution. A student has 'sued the St. Petersburg city education committee, claiming the 10th-grade biology textbook used at the Cervantes Gymnasium was offensive to believers and that teachers should offer an alternative to Darwin's famous theory.' The suit, the first of its kind in Russia, is being dismissed out of hand by the principal and teachers. The teacher of the science class had apparently even taken the step of stating at the start of the school year that there were other theories on the origin of life."

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Alternatives to Darwinism by Tackhead · 2006-12-15 07:12 · Score: 0, Redundant

Of course, In Soviet Russia, it's not Creationism, it's Lysenkoism!
origin of life by MORTAR_COMBAT! · 2006-12-15 08:03 · Score: 0, Redundant

Darwin's theory does not concern itself with the origin of life, only the evolution of it.

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