This incredible story, "South Korea surrenders to creationist demands", was published earlier this month in Nature:
A special purpose vehicle of the Korea Association for Creation Research* (kacr.or.kr), the revisionist lobby which pulled the strings didn't try to masquerade behind an Intelligent-Design-like smokescreen: it's even named the Society for Textbook Revise! Note how STR's website (str.or.kr) apes its US creationist counterparts:
Letting creationism, the very negation of science and education and one of the worst enemies of democracy, dictate the contents of textbooks is undoubtedly the most profound disgrace imaginable for any Ministry of Education.
But here in Korea, that's the ultimate abomination.
This is Korea, the country of King Sejong, a wise statesmen who advocated education and science.
This is Korea, a country victim of revisionist texbooks in Japan, where the extreme right, though very small in members, has considerable power over national politics and manages to keep the whole population in the dark regarding the country's troubled past.
Once again**, it seems that Korea is under attack from its worst enemies, the ones from within. A minority of extremists who dream of copying the Japanese "model" and to rule over the past and the future of the country.
And once again, these impostors are not nationalists: they want the destruction of Korea as a republic and as a democracy, and they are the best allies of the impostors who, in Japan or in China, multiply the same kind of provocations to fuel mutual hatred and extremism across the region.
Across the aisle, true Korean nationalists, true partisans of democracy and of the republic must defend the nation against the impostors who try to destroy it: expose and condemn their impostures, prevent revisionist textbooks from being published, and restore the values that make Korea a great country.
Wake up Korea!
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* Of course, "creation" and "research" are antinomic, but precisely, the whole concept of creationism is an insult to science and education. If believing in a creator is perfectly respectable, "Creationism" is pure forgery, an imposture that has nothing to do with science, and even nothing to do with religion: the agenda is political and ultimately, it's about replacing democracy with theocracy, and about replacing religion with fundamentalism.
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They seem to grow bolder by the day, and the multiplication of such provocations (see recently MBC's xenophobic video - "Still no apology from MBC, and more provocations on the Chinese front") is probably not a coincidence in this election year.
Sadly I saw this coming years ago. At one point more and more of my friends would spent their time in some weird hardcore Korean church. The Koreans also greatly increased their recruitment efforts among Kyopos, with success. Sometimes I wish it would be legal to slap people. :-(
ReplyDeleteI'm not korean and I'm a creationist. I read here http://creationrevolution.com/2012/06/south-korea-%E2%80%9Ccreationism%E2%80%9D-means-war/ that the portrayal of "evil" creationist lobbyist is wrong. They were trying to balance the truth by correcting mistakes by the mainstream "evolutionist".
ReplyDeleteWhy is this has anything to do with democracy. Christians are not enemies of democracy, we support it.
@JL: proselytism is pervasive and very bold in Korea. There's a lot of money around as well, with pyramidal systems similar to Ponzi schemes. Lobbyists are ready to spend a lot in the US too because if the laws become friendlier for them they can go even further.
ReplyDelete@melki: Christians are of course not enemies of democracy (and the same can be said about Jews or Muslims). Fundamentalism is the problem: this imposture is also the worst enemy of religion.
As I wrote before, believing in a Creator is fine, but the Creationist lobby is all about politics and about undermining democracy. Many great scientists are Christians, but faith is at a completely different level than science. Evolution is a science, creationism a belief.