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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:Agreed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You've never heard of the wedge document, have you? Many Christians believe that teaching evolution is responsible for everything bad in our society.