Darwin must stay in Indian school textbooks
The HinduIn 2018, the then Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Satyapal Singh, called Darwin’s theory of evolution “scientifically wrong” and asked that it be removed from Indian school and college curricula. The next year, the Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University, Nageswara Rao Gollapalli, made a claim at the 106th Indian Science Congress, that the “theory of Dashavatara” explains evolution better than Darwin’s theory. Biologist Ruth Hubbard, the first woman to hold a tenured professorship position at Harvard University’s biology department, wrote in 1979: “By the time Darwin came along, it was clear to many people that the earth and its creatures had histories.” As an example, Hubbard talks of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the French naturalist who proposed his own theory of evolution before Darwin. Philosopher Bertrand Russell has written about how Darwin’s theory was “essentially an extension to the animal and vegetable world of laissez-faire economics”.
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