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South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks

Posted by timothy on from the this-from-that-or-maybe-not dept.

Med-trump writes "A petition to remove references to evolution from high-school textbooks claimed victory in South Korea last month after the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) revealed that many of the publishers would produce revised editions that exclude examples of the evolution of the horse or of avian ancestor Archaeopteryx."

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  1. Re:Dang by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I have to change my favourite Korea to North Korea.

  2. Re:Did the world start spinning backwards? by Gadget_Guy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why are we letting these people win over science?

    Because if the creationists were wrong, then God would tell them - so they must be right! QED.