You can’t make this stuff up:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090317.wgoodyear16/BNStory/National/home
Now he is trying to ‘clarify’ his position:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090317.wevol0317/BNStory/politics/home
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Good to know that ignorance defies national borders. This guy believes in evolution, all right, as long as he gets to define what is evolution. And his definition is not the accepted definition.
Exactly. When you have ‘leaders’ like this it does make you question evolution. 
How do they make it this far??
But this shouldn’t come as a surprise because this is the same party that had a leader that thought dinosaurs and man walked the earth at the same time: Stockwell Day…now he is our minister of International Trade. Can you tell that Canadians like intelligent leaders??
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“Good to know that ignorance defies national borders.”
Actually, I was thinking the opposite: How discouraging it is that such ignorance extends even to a “minister of science” in a supposedly liberal-minded country.
Goodyear’s “clarification” was particularly disturbing: “We are evolving every year, every decade. That’s a fact, whether it is to the intensity of the sun, whether it is to, as a chiropractor, walking on cement versus anything else, whether it is running shoes or high heels, of course we are evolving to our environment.” One gets the very strong impression that Goodyear’s understanding of evolution is still entrenched in Lamarckist notions, that he is ignorant of the work of Darwin and his successors, all based on the idea of natural selection. “Running shoes”??? Yes, my feet are adapting to my running shoes, but if I were to have kids they would not pick up that adaptation.
I never made it past the opening salvo.
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.
HTF does a Science Minister conflate a question of biological evolution with his personal religion?
Oh, Canada.
How do you get that job without answering that question? Was this a political appointment?
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Thanks for starting us off. 
The Prime Minister appoints who he wants to his cabinet, so yes he was appointed as the Science Minister but he was elected as a Conservative MP. He represents the Cambridge and North Dumfries area in Ontario.
Is that what you were asking…I wasn’t really sure.
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Canada and Texas have something in common!
Hurray!
I mean…wait, no, this is awful
It’s the same PM who gave an MP from Calgary (Jim Prentice) the Environment portfolio. Although it’s a fairly blue-collar area of the city, I’d guess that the majority of the constituents that Prentice represents work in oil and gas. Fox in charge of the hen-house?
It’s also the same PM who would like to get rid of same-sex marriage.
It doesn’t surprise me that someone representing Cambridge doesn’t believe in evolution. I have relatives in that area, it’s not exactly enlightened. I spent 5y going to school in the TriCities, which includes Cambridge and could not wait to leave.
Just because your relatives are dumb don’t extend that to the rest of us.
Well…the ability to wear high heels could have an evolutionary effect via sexual selection. ; ^ )
Something tells me that these genes will get spread to the next generation:
The “intelligent” circle has a centre point at UW and has a radius that does not extend beyond the WLU property line. 
I suppose he doesn’t believe in gravity either.
Proof stupid people can be successful politicians.
The “intelligent” circle has a centre point at UW and has a radius that does not extend beyond the WLU property line.
Some would argue, it doesn’t extend into the WLU property line. 
The scary part is there are others as stupid and Harper’s cabinet is full of them.
Canada’s Minister of International Trade of believes man and dinosaurs lived together.
Oh it definitely extends to the WLU property line! But I am a bit biased
WLU Geography/Biology Class of 1995
Where do they get these guys?
“Where do they get these guys?”
The Republican Party.
True.
The other side’s no better, just jacked up in a different way. My only recourse is to pay my mortgage in ass pennies.