Darwinism expunged from India's school textbooks

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Speed read Darwin's theory removed from India's school textbooks Science educators urge restoration in open petition Educators say COVID-19 rationale to delete chapters not tenable [NEW DELHI] Science educators in India are urging the government to restore material on Darwinian evolution which has been removed from science textbooks on the grounds that the study load on schoolchildren needs to be lightened after the COVID-19 pandemic. "The theory of evolution by natural selection as propounded by Charles Darwin and developed and extended subsequently has had a major influence on modern biology and medicine, and indeed all of modern science. According to Raghunandan, Hindu mythology holds that the deity Vishnu descends to Earth as an "avatar” (form) whenever the cosmic order is disturbed.