OT - Ignorance Elswhere Too...

It's not just here that you find people forcing their ignorance on the
young. Sounds as if South Korea has its share of idiots, too:

"South Korea set to remove examples of evolution from textbooks

South Korean publishers are poised to delete references to evolution from
high-school textbooks, a victory for the growing creationist movement in the
country.

The move came after the South Korean government passed along to publishers a
petition organized by a pro-creationist group, Nature reported Tuesday.

The group, the Society for Textbook Revise, petitioned to remove examples of
the evolution of the horse and the ancestral Archaeopteryx bird, and is also
campaigning to cut any reference to the evolution of humans or Charles
Darwin's theory of the origin of the species.

South Korea's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced the
news last month.

"The ministry just sent the petition out to the publishing companies and let
them judge," Dayk Jang, an evolutionary scientist at Seoul National
University, told Nature.

South Korea's Society for Textbook Revise is an offshoot of the Korea
Association for Creation Research, the major force behind the
pro-creationist movement in the country.

It was set up by the U.S. Institute of Creation Research in the early 1980s,
around the time Christianity began its rapid rise across South Korea."


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/south-korea-set-remove-examples-evolution-textbooks-article-1.1091083


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