Evolution Diary

Seems like USA will not be the only country which has to deal with creationism. According to the following story, a few other countries are facing an increasing creationism threat in schools.

Here in Singapore we respect people’s faith and it seems like our education system is every secular.

But because school children are not taught about evolution from young, many of them might still be susceptible to influence from parents or churches.

Once i went to one of the local mega churches sermon under the invitation from a friend, i was shocked that the guest pastor used the analogy of a stack of orderly coins to present the idea of intelligent design. He went on to draw a conclusion of humans being intelligently designed… sigh.. such “knowledge” being passed down…

Hopefully this kind of “knowledge” will not spread…

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Creationism news from around the world

Although the United States remains the bastion of creationism, the rest of the world is not invulnerable. Creationism is a worldwide phenomenon, in which antievolutionary materials produced by the centers of creationism in the United States are exported overseas, either wholesale or with modifications to suit the local milieu; often there is reimportation, as creationists overseas become major players in their own right and are then welcomed by the legions of creationists in the United States. (The young-earth creationist ministry Answers in Genesis is a case in point: based in Florence, Kentucky, its chief executive officer is the Australian Ken Ham.) Perhaps owing to the spate of media coverage of recent defeats for creationism in the United States — the decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover in December 2005, the Ohio state board of education’s removal of the “critical analysis of education” lesson plan in February 2006, and the primary election results for the Kansas state board of education in August 2006 — stories about evolution education and attempts to compromise it have been in the news around the world.

Continue to read the USA’s National Center for Science Education story on Creationism in other countries