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Added: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 UTC

Thanks to LindaWS for the link.

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http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2007/200703/20070313.html

Turkey — Creationism Documentary

The battle between creationism and evolution is a familiar debate in many North American classrooms. You may remember a documentary we aired earlier this year about "Biblically Correct" tours of museums in the United States where creationists take students through a museum of natural history to dispute Darwin's theory of evolution.

Today we have another story about this ongoing clash of ideas but from a country you might not expect. In Turkey, 700 academics have filed a case against the government to stem the increasing presence of creationism in science classes. Teachers and academics are concerned that a powerful creationist lobby is exerting more and more influence on the country's government.

And, this war between theology and science is creating some strange bed fellows as US Christian fundamentalists are joining forces with Muslim creationists in an effort to change the teachings in Turkey's classrooms. Freelance broadcaster Dorian Jones has prepared a documentary on what is becoming an increasingly bitter dispute over the mind of the country's children.

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