Darwin row: Javadekar asks Satyapal to refrain from such comments

January 23, 2018 21:26

With BJP earning brickbats for MoS Satyapal Singhs remarks that Charles Darwins theory of evolution was scientifically wrong, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar went into damage control mode and said he has asked Singh to refrain from making such comments.

Javadekar, the Union human resource development minister, maintained that science should not be diluted, insisting that the government has no plans to hold a national seminar to prove Darwins evolution theory wrong.

I have discussed the matter with my MoS and I have asked him to refrain from making such comments. We should not dilute science. This is the advice I have given him, Javadekar was quoted as saying.

We are not going to fund any event or dont have any plan for a national seminar to prove Darwin wrong. It is the domain of scientists and we should let them free to continue their efforts for progress of the country, he added.

Last week, Singh, Minister of State for HRD, had stoked controversy after stating: Darwins theory (of evolution of man) is scientifically wrong. It needs to change in the school and college curriculum. Since (the time that) man is seen on Earth, he has always been a man. Nobody, including our ancestors, in written or oral, said they saw an ape turning into a man.

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