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Great response from the liberals :lol
Also Holland is the best European baseball nation if that counts for anything.
Making out with a bearded man is like the gayest thing ever, baby faces are alright as long as you don't tell anyone :teehee
Evolution is more faith/religion than science so I have no problem with this
Hey that's my MP!Now the stalking game begins.
The Liberal Party's response was cold-blooded: "Our science critic [Yanks, not a critic of science, but a critic of the minister] is a former astronaut, he can testify from personal experience that the world is round, not flat."
The Liberal Party's response was cold-blooded: "Our science critic [Yanks, not a critic of science, but a critic of the minister] is a former astronaut, he can testify from personal experience that the world is round, not flat."
Evolution is more faith/religion than science so I have no problem with this
Hey that's my MP!Now the stalking game begins.
edit: you live an hour away from my old hometown of Mississauga.
The Liberal Party's response was cold-blooded: "Our science critic [Yanks, not a critic of science, but a critic of the minister] is a former astronaut, he can testify from personal experience that the world is round, not flat."
I'm continually baffled by the fact that you guys' liberal party doesn't get rid of that deadweight guy at the head of it. Seems like they'd be able to win an election if they did. Put this science critic dude as the head of the party, he's got cojones.
Hey that's my MP!Now the stalking game begins.
edit: you live an hour away from my old hometown of Mississauga.
Bleh. Mississauga. Possess neither the big city appeal nor the suburban charm of the cities surrounding it.
Evolution is more faith/religion than science so I have no problem with thisThis, and not the Catholic church, is why black people have the AIDS.
Evolution is more faith/religion than science so I have no problem with this
PD is just doing the contrarian thing.
Evolution is more faith/religion than science so I have no problem with this
I didn't know there was a church or mainstream religion that promoted evolution.
Yeah I guess you're right. The entire GTA is a hell hole.
Yeah I guess you're right. The entire GTA is a hell hole.
I used to think that until I moved to Winnipeg.
The Liberal Party's response was cold-blooded: "Our science critic [Yanks, not a critic of science, but a critic of the minister] is a former astronaut, he can testify from personal experience that the world is round, not flat."
I'm continually baffled by the fact that you guys' liberal party doesn't get rid of that deadweight guy at the head of it. Seems like they'd be able to win an election if they did. Put this science critic dude as the head of the party, he's got cojones.
Umm, I assume you're talking about Dion. They did get rid of him back in December.
Science Minister = a PM who's given some science-related portfolio, rather than someone appointed specifically for that job, right?
And science critic = shadow science minister?
Gotcha.
I guess it's less shocking that a politician would say this rather than an outsider (of whom you'd expect some expertise). On the other hand, there were a ton of unelected appointees in the Bush administration who didn't believe in the mission of the bureaus they ran. So yeah.
That zinger about the ex-astronaut was pretty slick, though.
When asked by a Globe and Mail science reporter, Canada's Minister of State for Science and Technology wouldn't say if he believed in evolution. Was that a problem, or just a niggling matter of personal conscience?
Let's put it this way: If Finance Minister Jim Flaherty were to say he didn't understand how the money supply works but he prays daily for an end to the current economic turmoil, I believe we would all think we had a problem.
Jonathan Kay -- who columnized on this issue in Tuesday's Post -- thinks that religion is a private matter, and that those pesky secularists with all their logic and proven science are merely engaging in a "witch hunt." With all due respect to him, this represents a forever mind-numbing failure to properly frame the place of science in our society.
Science is not what we believe, it is what we know. It is based on observation, reason, fact and proof. Faith, on the other hand, is all those things we cannot test, document or prove. That's why it's called faith; we believe in the absence of proof.
Science Minister Gary Goodyear says he believes in things we cannot see. "Maybe," he says, "we don't have a powerful enough microscope yet." This is a false logic that permeates the creationist community: the idea that because there is much to be revealed in the world, we can't count on what we have already seen. Are creationists willing to apply this logic to medicine, and forgo Penicillin pending what we still don't know about bacteriology? Do they reject what we already know about the world's geography because we haven't fully mapped the sea beds?
Of course it matters whether the Science Minister acknowledges or contests evolution. This isn't a case of a politician who likes to read the Bible and pray -- it's a Cabinet Minister who holds philosophical beliefs that are antithetical to his portfolio.
The first problem with Goodyear is that he fronts the science portfolio in a government that has demonstrated through its most recent budget that it doesn't value the sector. The man delegated to argue the vital importance of science at the Cabinet table doesn't actually know what it is. More significantly, Goodyear's insistence that religion should come to bear on science provides comfort to those who teach their children the falsehood that to follow God you must reject science.
This is the willful dissemination of scientific illiteracy. More frankly put, it is the promotion of stupidity.