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In a controversial decision the South Korean government has requested textbooks publishers to ignore calls for removing examples of evolution from high school science texts. This includes evidence for the evolution of horses and the bird ancestral Archaeopteryx.

1. Evolution and Religion

A South Korean creationist group has convinced textbook publishers to eliminate evidence of evolution from high school science texts. The decision was the result of a campaign led by the Society for Textbook Revise (STR) an independent branch of the Korea Association for Creation Research that aims to clear textbooks on biology of "atheist materialism." The STR claims that this kind of materialistic thinking creates a negative picture for students and leads to their eventual denial of faith.

When the STR's campaign made the news, scientists around the world reacted with concern. Jae Choe, an evolutionary biologist at Ewha Womans University, Seoul wrote in an open letter to Nature's editor that South Korea had succumbed to religious prejudice. He was backed by colleagues across the country, who set up an organization called Evolution Korea to organize a petition against the changes to the textbooks.

Some scientists are worried about the possibility that the STR campaign will spread to other parts of the world where the spread of creationism is increasing. The letter to Nature warned that the anti-evolution movement could push for textbook revisions in other countries, particularly those with strong Christian and 에볼루션 게이밍 Muslim populations.

South Korea has a particularly powerful cultural backdrop for the debate on evolution. 26 percent of South Koreans are members of a religion with the majority of them practicing Christianity or Buddhism. Additionally, a large portion of Koreans adhere to the philosophy of Ch'ondogyo. It is that is based on Confucian principles that emphasizes harmony among people and individual self-cultivation. Ch'ondogyo believes that humans are in a relationship with Hanulnim, the God of the Sun, and 에볼루션 무료체험 that heavenly blessings are possible through the good deeds of a person.

All of this has created a fertile field. A number of studies have demonstrated that students who have a religious background tend to feel more uncomfortable about learning about evolution than students without religion. However, the underlying causes of this phenomenon things to evolve and change.

A well-rounded education should also include exposure to all major fields of science including evolutionary biology. This is essential because a variety of jobs and 에볼루션 무료체험 decisions require that people understand the way science works.

The vast majority of scientists around the world agree that humans have evolved through time. In a study that predicted the views of adults on the consensus on this topic people with higher levels of education and scientific knowledge were found to be more likely to believe that there is wide agreement among scientists about the evolution of humans. Those with more religious faith but less scientific knowledge tend to disagree more. It is important that educators emphasize the importance of understanding this consensus to enable people to make informed decisions about health care, energy usage and other issues of policy.

3. Evolution and Culture

A close relative to the mainstream evolutionary theory, the concept of cultural evolution focuses on the various ways humans--and other organisms--learn from and interact with each other. Researchers in this field use explanation models and tools that are adapted from those employed by evolutionary theorists, and they reach back into human prehistory to determine the genesis of our capacity for culture.

This method also acknowledges the distinction between biological and cultural traits. Cultural traits can be acquired gradually, whereas biological traits are mostly inherited simultaneously (in sexual species, at fertilization). As a result, the emergence of one cultural characteristic can affect the development of another.

In Korea the emergence of Western styles in the latter part of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the result an elaborate sequence of events. One of the most important was the arrival in Korea of Japanese occupation forces that introduced Western clothing and hairstyles.

When Japan departed Korea in the 1930s, a portion of those trends began to change. At the end of World War II, Korea was united once more, this time under the Choson dynasty rule.

Today, Korea is an economic and political power. Despite the current global financial crisis, the economy of Korea has been growing steadily over the last decade and is set to sustain its steady growth in the coming years.

The current government is confronted by a myriad of problems. The inability of the government to develop a coherent strategy to tackle the current economic crisis is one of the biggest challenges. The crisis has exposed shortcomings in the policies of the country particularly its dependence on foreign investment and exports which could not last.

Since the financial crisis has destroyed the confidence of investors, the government has to review its economic strategy and come up with alternatives to increase domestic demand. It must also overhaul the incentive monitoring, control, and discipline systems that are currently in place to create a stable financial environment. This chapter provides a number of scenarios for 에볼루션 무료체험 how the Korean economy might develop post-crisis.

4. Evolution and Education

The biggest challenge for evolution educators is how to teach evolutionary concepts in a way that is suitable for students of different age groups and developmental stages. For example, teachers must be sensitive to the diversity of religions in their classrooms and create a space that students who have religious and secular beliefs feel comfortable learning evolution. Teachers must also understand common misconceptions about evolution and how to deal with these in their classrooms. Teachers must also have easy access to the various resources to teach evolution.

In this context the Thinking Evolutionarily Convocation was an important step towards bringing evolutionary scientists and educators from a range of disciplines to discuss best practices for teaching evolution. Participants included representatives from scientific societies and educational research organizations, as well as officials of government funding agencies as well as curriculum developers. The convergence of various participants helped to identify some common guidelines that will serve as the foundation for future actions.

It is crucial to include evolution in all science curricula, at every level. National Science Education Standards (NRC) that call for the integration of evolution across all life sciences with a progression that is developmentally appropriate, are one method to achieve this goal. A new publication from the NRC provides guidance to schools about how to integrate evolution in the life science curriculum.

A number of studies have demonstrated that a more thorough teaching of evolution is associated with more knowledge and belief in the concept of evolution. It is difficult to estimate the causality of teaching in the classroom because school curricula don't change randomly and are influenced by the timing of the state board of education and gubernatorial elections. To overcome this limitation, I use a longitudinal data set that allows me to account for year and state fixed effects and the individual-level variation in teacher beliefs regarding evolution.

Another important result is that teachers who are more comfortable teaching about evolution report having fewer personal barriers to teaching it. This is consistent with the notion that a more experienced faculty is less likely to avoid tackling evolution topics in the classroom. Additionally, they might be more likely use strategies such as an approach to reconciliation that is known to increase undergraduate student acceptance of evolution (Harms and Reiss 2019; Tolman et al., 2020).