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When Should Evolution Be Taught?

The Cārvāka Podcast

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Kushal Mahara: Today's podcast is actually a very last minute thing. To maybe set it up for everyone, I will share a bunch of events and incidents that have led to today's podcast. There was a press release given by NCERT. NCERT took a step towards the rationalization of textbooks across the stages and subject areas. The government now has pushed Evolution and its references, Evolution by Natural Selection especially Charles Darwin to Grade 11 and 12 where basically if you are picking a biology, you are going to be taking it up then. Richard Dawkins also shared an article Jerry Coyn relied on in the nature.com. Now that article is laced with rubbish but the outrage was

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