Finnish and Russian Universities to Cooperate

Five Finnish and four Russian universities will begin a cooperation programme next autumn.

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Russian Student Sues School Over Teaching of Evolution

A Russian court on Wednesday started hearings in an unprecedented lawsuit brought by a 15-year-old student who says being taught the theory of evolution in school violates her rights and insults her religious beliefs, the Associated Press news agency reports.

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Russian Orthodox Church Against Darwin’s Theory

An official spokesman of the Russian Orthodox Church has said that schools should teach other theories of human creation apart from Darwin theory, but did not name any options.

Darwinism should not be presented at schools as the only scientific hypothesis of human origin, said the Secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate’s External Relations Department Michail Dudko.

“Obviously, this theory may be taught in school but not as the only scientific view on the origin of the world. Besides, Darwin’s theory contradicts Christian ideology according to which our world was created and did not evolve gradually”.

The official also noted that the Church’s point of view had the right to be presented in schoolbooks on equal terms with Darwin’s theory.

Dudko made the comments as a court in St. Petersburg started hearings into the lawsuit of a schoolgirl who said teaching Darwin’s in schools infringed her rights as a Christian believer. The girl, represented in court by her father, also claims that presenting Darwin’s theory as the only correct theory encroaches her human right to choose the point of view.

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