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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090317.wgoodyear16/BNStory/National/home
"Canada's science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won't say if he believes in evolution.
“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,” Gary Goodyear, the federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail."
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The only possible reason why belief or non-belief in evolution would be a religious question is if one thought that Christianity and evolutionary theory are mutually exclusive. He calls it a religious question. He then states that he is a Christian. The logic of the situation isn't complicated.
I'm more disappointed than anything else. I rather thought this is the kind of thing that happens south of here. I find it embarrassing.
"Canada's science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won't say if he believes in evolution.
“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,” Gary Goodyear, the federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail."
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The only possible reason why belief or non-belief in evolution would be a religious question is if one thought that Christianity and evolutionary theory are mutually exclusive. He calls it a religious question. He then states that he is a Christian. The logic of the situation isn't complicated.
I'm more disappointed than anything else. I rather thought this is the kind of thing that happens south of here. I find it embarrassing.