Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Evolution. 2011 Jan;65(1):301-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01113.x. Epub 2010 Sep 29.
Statements made in a recent outcry against a creationist in the Israeli Ministry of Education starkly illuminated Western misconceptions about Iranian science education. These misconceptions are perpetuated not only among the general public but also within the international scientific community, where investigations of "Islamic creationism" often incorporate misleading assumptions regarding Islamic religious attitudes toward science as well as the nature of secularism in non-Western states. In turn, these assumptions have led to superficial analyses that overly rely on state religiosity to explain the treatment of evolution in national science education. Therefore, a new framework accounting for local political and social circumstances is crucial and urgently needed to effectively analyze science education in the Middle East.
最近，以色列教育部的一位神创论者引发了强烈抗议，这一事件清楚地揭示了西方对伊朗科学教育的误解。这些误解不仅存在于公众之中，也存在于国际科学界，在国际科学界，对“伊斯兰创世论”的调查往往包含了对伊斯兰教对科学的态度以及非西方国家世俗主义性质的误解假设。反过来，这些假设导致了肤浅的分析，过于依赖国家宗教性来解释国家科学教育中对进化论的处理。因此，迫切需要一个新的框架来考虑当地的政治和社会环境，以便有效地分析中东的科学教育。
