08 November 2009

In Turkey, fertile ground for creationism

Sema Ergezen teaches biology to Turkish students interested in teaching science themselves, and she has long struggled with her students' ignorance of, and sometimes hostility to, the notion of evolution.

But she was taken aback when several of her Marmara University students recently accused her of being an atheist, or worse, for teaching anything but the doctrine that God created the Earth and everything on it. "They said I was a liar if I called myself a Muslim because I also accepted evolution," she said. [The Washington Post] Read more [via Butterflies and Wheels]