Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Minister of  state for HRD Satya Pal Singh said that the ministry is not considering any proposal to remove Darwin’s theory from school and college curriculum.

What is Darwin’s theory ? 

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) english naturalists gave this thoery.It is a theory of biological evolution.Theory states that –

  1. More individuals are produced each generation that can survive.
  2. Phenotypic variation exists among individuals and the variation is heritable.
  3. Those individuals with heritable traits better suited to the environment will survive.

Charles Robert Darwin ( 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.

Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species.

Controversy in this theory:

Singh landed in controversy last month when he claimed at an event in Aurangabad that Darwin’s theory of evolution was “scientifically wrong” and needed to be changed in school and college curricula.

While scientists from three top scientific institutions in the country condemned the remarks, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar advised Singh to refrain from making such comments and leave the job to scientists.

“The CBSE [Central Board of Secondary Education] has intimated that Charles Darwin’s evolution of species is a part of the curriculum under the elective subject of Biology for class XII,” Minister of State for HRD Satya Pal Singh said in response to a written question in the Rajya Sabha. The Ministry was not considering any proposal to omit the theory from school and college curricula.

 

By himani