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Does the decline of US power mean more nations are dumping Darwin?

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Just wondering. A couple days ago, we were hearing about South Koreans wanting to get basically wrong Darwin trivia out of textbooks. Now, we hear that in Turkey,

Scholars who espouse creationist ideas are becoming more assertive in challenging Darwinism.

The recent push by those who see a divine role in human evolution has alarmed Darwin’s adherents. In May, hundreds of academics and students angrily protested against what was billed as Turkey’s first academic conference on creationist ideas, held at Istanbul’s Marmara University.

– Dorian Jones, “Turkey: Creationists Want to Airbrush Darwin Out of Evolutionary Picture”, June 7, 2012, EurasiaNet

Some of this stuff is hard to call.

But clearly, none of these people seem especially worried about a US-backed international Darwin lobby stomping them down, and who knows where that will lead.