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• 08:02:41 am on July 21, 2008 | # | |
  Tags: creationism, education, evolution, politics, science, Turkey

  When Muslims and Christians unite: CBC Radio has a documentary on the battle between creationism and evolution in Turkey (scroll down to Part 2):

  In Turkey, 700 academics have filed a case against the government to stem the increasing presence of creationism in science classes. Teachers and academics are concerned that a powerful creationist lobby is exerting more and more influence on the country’s government [...] And, this war between theology and science is creating some strange bed fellows as US Christian fundamentalists are joining forces with Muslim creationists in an effort to change the teachings in Turkey’s classrooms.

  The radio programme discusses the involvement of the American creationists, and in particular The Discovery Institute, involved in the Turkish creationist movement. American creationists see their Muslim counterparts as allies in their battle against Darwinism.

  The documentary also highlights how the Turkish military dictatorship in the 1980s intended to use American creationist material to combat left-wing political movements.

  (Via an emailer.)

   

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  aziz 8:15 am on July 21, 2008 | #

  It occurs to me that the Talk Origins archive might need to be translated to Turkish.

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