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Darwin's mishap in Italy
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No evolution for Italian teens
April 28, 2004
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040428/04
Scientists, teachers shocked by plan to cut evolutionary teaching in secondary school
Darwin back in Italy's schools
April 29, 2004
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040429/01
Science and education minister changes her mind on teaching evolutionary theory
[rhinoceros]
From my corner of the world, I must say that creationism was something new to me, which I encountered for the first time on the Web. Although we always had religion classes at school and the Greek orthodox church used to pervade all aspects of society (less so today), evolution was never cast in doubt. The religion teachers and the clergy were just avoiding to cross science -- they were viewing creation as a metaphor and trying to point out the "invisible hand" behind any scentific theory or fact. I wonder whether that can change now. Globalization has so many facets...
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