Once again, they copy some of our worst attributes...
"South Korea surrenders to creationist demands: Publishers set to remove examples of evolution from high-school textbooks."
Mention creationism, and many scientists think of the United States, where efforts to limit the teaching of evolution have made headway in a couple of states1. But the successes are modest compared with those in South Korea, where the anti-evolution sentiment seems to be winning its battle with mainstream science. [...] Even the nation’s leading science institute — the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology — has a creation science display on campus. “The exhibition was set up by scientists who believed in creation science back in 1993,” says Gab-duk Jang, a pastor of the campus church. The institute also has a thriving Research Association for Creation Science, run by professors and students, he adds.
Proof that having a thoroughly educated, thoroughly modern, thoroughly First World society is no shield against scientific folly.
