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30 January 2007, 15:20Darwinism’s strict settlement imposed on school must give way to the student’s right to choose a scientific worldview, a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church say
Moscow, January 30, Interfax - The vice-chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin supported children’s and their parents’ right to choose what interpretation of the origin of man and life on Earth to study in school.
‘Until now there has been the monopoly and strict settlement of Darwinism, which, though but a hypothesis, a theory of the origin of man and world, is presented today as an indisputable scientific truth,’ Fr. Vsevolod told the Ekho Moskvy radio broadcasting in his interview.
Many scientists think that in Darwin’s theory ‘there is pretty much strained argumentation’, and archaeological facts, which had been presented as ‘something unquestionable’ in Soviet textbooks are in reality ‘very much fragmentary’ and ‘can never provide a solid basis to prove that a biological species may evolve into another one.’
‘In any event, this theory has little evidence. So, insisting that it is a proven scientific truth is at least imprudent,’ the Moscow Patriarchate’s representative said, having also mentioned that Darwin’s theory had much ideology in it.
The schoolchildren and their parents should ‘enjoy their right to have their worldview taught in schools,’ he said.
It was a part of the international law that the school curriculum must be in keeping with the concrete family’s worldview, Fr. Vsevolod noted. |
