South Korea surrenders to creationist demands

Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

Check out the new SourceForge HTML5 internet speed test! No Flash necessary and runs on all devices. ×

Submission + - South Korea surrenders to creationist demands (nature.com)

Submitted by Med-trump on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @09:28AM

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.

This discussion was created for logged-in users only, but now has been archived. No new comments can be posted.