Congratulations Texas! You?re not the exclusive domain of Creationist idiocy any more! Seven science textbook publishers in South Korea have agreed to remove references to evolution after a campaign by Christian groups.
According to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST), of the seven science textbook publishers, three of them have decided to concede to the petition that called ?the depiction of the evolution of horse is the product of imagination?. Chonjae Education publishing house decided to replace the ?evolution of horse? with the ?evolution of whale? and the rest decided to remove the reference altogether.
The evolution of the horse is widely considered one of the best examples for demonstrating how evolution works, so naturally it shouldn?t be taught to children, lest they expand their minds and not blindly follow religious doctrine.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias, and gone are the days when the right, particularly the religious right, sought to challenge this with facts or evidence. The new tactic is to cast everything as a ?debate? and so reduce the confidence people have in certain scientific facts by presenting them as equal to say, intelligent design. This cheapening of scientific debate has been helped in part by a media culture obsessed with balance, where homoeopathy is presented as a legitimate rival to real medicine, where believers in magic (because that?s all intelligent design is, when you get down to it) are interviewed alongside evolutionary biologists; stating facts has become ?partisan?.
The American right, not content with fucking up their own children and cheating them of an education, are exporting their tactics around the world. Be worried.
[Via: Korea Bang] [Photo credit: Flickr]
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