Evolution Diary

A while ago, i posted a story of a Russian girl sueing her school for teaching evolution in biology classes. Now there are some updates to this case as reported by Baltimore Sun.

Apparently she’s not really interested in the lawsuit and had missed 2 court hearings. She was represented by her father as well as a family friend who heads a public relations firm called Spiritual Heritage.

This family friend believes that nothing short of society’s collapse is at stake when it comes to the teaching of evolution.

Vuima, whose firm goes by the slogan, “We Create Sensations,” believes that nothing short of society’s collapse is at stake when it comes to the teaching of evolution. He, like the lawsuit, contends that Darwinism, while not a political ideology, stems from Marxist-Leninist ideology; after all, both Darwin and Karl Marx, who is said to have offered to dedicate Das Kapital to the scientist, wrote of grand struggles for survival.

Before launching the current “information war” against Darwin - which includes the Web site antidarvin.com and a special number that is accepting text-message “votes” for and against the scientist - Vuima set out to determine how society as a whole had become so morally bankrupt.

He decided, in short, that it was because of a lack of faith in God. And, by his logic, since Darwin’s theory as presented in schools essentially teaches that there is no God, Darwin himself is the enemy.

“If we want to have a high level of morality, not just in Russia but all over the world, we have to challenge Darwin’s theory,” Vuima said. “Darwin’s theory kills morality. It denies the copyright of God.”

Mariya’s lawyer frames the argument in decidedly less sweeping, more legalistic, terms: “Secular education should not be based on offending the feelings of religious believers,” Romanov said.

Sergei Mamontov, one of the authors of the biology textbook used, says the book doesn’t advocate anything - except the teaching of science. Taking offense to Darwinism, in his view, is like taking offense to the theories of Einstein or Copernicus.

Read the whole story at Baltimore Sun

Russian teen sues over teaching of evolution