“Globalists and atheists, who hold positions of power across the world, affirm the theory of evolution for personal and globalist reasons, and fund the theory’s advocates,“ reads the petition sent to the Ministry of Education, parliament, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, SANU, and state universities.
The initiative calls for a review of the teaching of Darwinism, the evolutionary history of life on Earth accepted by the overwhelming majority of the scientific community, and demands for the religiously inspired theory of creationism to be taught in Serbian schools alongside with the theory of the evolution.
The petition's organizers say their goal is to challenge the dominant status of Darwinism in schoolbooks, arguing it is just one of several theories of human creation and that they question the science behind it.
The National Assembly said it has received the petition, signed by 166 people, including doctors, professors, priests, and politicians, some of them reportedly also members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences. But it said it will not act on it.
The announcement posted by the Serbian Academy of Sciences states "we don't share the petition's views" underlining that only two members of the Academy has signed the document.
