On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:12:03 -0700, Stephen Black wrote: >Yesterday, we had a shocker in the People's Republic of Canada. Our >Science Minister, (yes, our _science_ minister), with the proud title of >federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, was asked whether >he "believed in evolution". > >He refused to say, replying "I'm not going to answer that question. I am >a Christian, and I don't think anybody asking a question about my >religion is appropriate" (and you just have to admire the creative syntax >of that statement).
You might want to take a look at the editorial in this week's Nature: |Editorial |Nature 458, 259 (19 March 2009) | doi:10.1038/458259a; |Published online 18 |March 2009 |Turkey censors evolution | |Turkey's government has done more for science than many. A row over |a censored magazine and a sacked editor could put the good work at risk. | |It has been the biggest crisis in Turkish academia since last year's lifting |of the headscarf ban in universities. Last week a portrait of Charles Darwin |was taken off the cover of the March issue of the government-backed |science magazine Bilim ve Teknik (Science and Technology) just before |it went to press. TÜBTAK, Turkey's national science funding agency, |which publishes the magazine, then sacked its editor, Çidem Atakuman. |Scientists, assuming censorship, are justifiably outraged and protests are |ongoing. see: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7236/full/458259a.html Anti-evolutionism: Not just for Christians anymore. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
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