Science Wins Over Creationism In South Korea

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 7, 2012 @12:49AM from the bribed-with-vespene-gas dept.

ananyo writes "South Korea's government has urged textbook publishers to ignore calls to remove two examples of evolution from high-school textbooks. The move marks a change of heart for the government, which had earlier forwarded a petition from the 'Society for Textbook Revise' to publishers and told them to make their own minds up about the demands. The petition called for details about the evolution of the horse and of the avian ancestor Archaeopteryx to be removed from the books. In May, news emerged that publishers were planning to drop the offending sections, sparking outrage among some scientists. The resulting furor prompted the government to set up an 11-member panel, led by the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. On 5 September, the panel concluded that Archaeopteryx must be included in Korean science textbooks. And, while accepting that the textbooks' explanation of the evolution of the horse was too simplistic, the panel said the entry should be revised rather than removed or replaced with a different example, such as the evolution of whales."

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Re:don't you know? by O('_')O_Bush · 2012-09-07 00:57 · Score: 4, Interesting

It is fun to watch evolution in action. I.D. and Creationism are dying out by generation, as few people with evolutionist parents accept anything but evolution, and many that have parents that are I.D. or Creationists still only accept evolution. Mostly because, to them, evolution is far more elegant and fits the observations, while Creationism doesn't and I.D. only deals with unobservable and untestable.

This might be one of the greatest arguments for the process of evolution, but by the time it becomes convincing to the fundamentalist and die-hard I.D.ers, there may no longer be the need to make that argument as the next generation would be so overwhelmingly against such anti-science.

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Re:Neil DeGrasse quote instantly came to mind. by MickyTheIdiot · 2012-09-07 01:27 · Score: 5, Interesting

Phillip K. Dick said "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
He thought it was an imperfect answer to a philosophical question, but he said he couldn't define it further.