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Jun 19, 2012

The South Korean Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology received a number of complaints following the proposed removal of references to evolution in high school biology textbooks, and it plans to set up a panel to supervise any future textbook changes, reports the Nature News Blog. "We are expecting more petitions and calls from the evolutionists and creationists regarding this issue in the future, so a committee of evolutionary scientists will set up guidelines for the future revision of science textbooks," ministry official Ka-young Shin tells the Nature News Blog.

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