What happened to Atatürk's secular and modern Turkey?
Are there no secular schools that teach biology without islam interference?
It's gone. lol
All Turkish schools abide by the offical school curriculums by law. Evolution is not recognised by the curriculum, neither negatively or positively. So, no teaching of it.
Much less flippantly: It's tragic how Islamic (and Catholic) religious scholars preserved and advanced knowledge throughout history. Obviously not perfectly or fully impartially, but notably well. It's tragic because nowadays every major religious group seem infested by demagogues trying to do the opposite.
Heh. You sweet summer... adult(?). Their endevours weren't for preservation. They were for estrangement.
The Catholci Church first wanted to suffocate modern science in its infancy. Then it tried to silence it by death threats in its childhood. Then tried to control its direction once it realised that the chil was now a rebellious, cunning adolencent and that its power has spread like wildfire.
And now, science is an adult. An powerful, fully-autonomous adult, who is no way affected by any of the dogma the church tried to reign over it with before. Now, church has to oblige.
The Catholic Clergy saw the rise of secularism and atheism a generation before its arrival. So they changed politics. They opposed birth control, so they would be able to replenish the flock as the heathenfolk started to tear at their outskirts, taking away their young. They became meeker, much less demanding. They whitewashed their dogma and themselves, they feigned tameness, so they could stay in the faster modren life; anything larger would be abandoned.
But that is not enough. Hey, enthropy called. It wants them gone. There is a 1800 years of debt of existance it demands payment for.It's basic memetics unfortunately.
Abrahamic religions evolved in the middle of the Middle East. That environment was always competitive, may faiths clashed for control while new ones either formed themselves or branched out of others.
Judaism started as a freak variant of the Ancient Canaanite religion. Yahweh was a war and storm god, and the local leaders used its figure to rally up forces to conquer.
The rest is just a rather hefty streak of luck. Judaism first managed to spread, but since it retained its basal self-isolative traits, it was overshadowed by its more derived forms, Christianity and Islam. The those too diverged and branched out, and here we are.
Fun Fact: First Christians did not called themselves Christians.
Fun Fact: When Islam first appeared, and some time after that, Christians saw them as just a heretical branch of Christianity, not something of its own.