Is Canada's Science Minister a Creationist?

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Minister won't confirm belief in evolution
Researchers aghast that key figure in funding controversy invokes religion in science discussion

ANNE MCILROY
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
March 17, 2009 at 2:00 AM EDT
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.

A funding crunch, exacerbated by cuts in the January budget, has left many senior researchers across the county scrambling to find the money to continue their experiments.

Some have expressed concern that Mr. Goodyear, a chiropractor from Cambridge, Ont., is suspicious of science, perhaps because he is a creationist.

more:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090317.wgoodyear16/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20090317.wgoodyear16

[skepticscott]

1. The fact that he's a chiropractor

should have been the first warning sign. This guy is pure woo-woo when it comes to science.

[n2doc]

2. kick n/t

[LeftinOH]

3. Being asked about evolution is a 'question about religion'? Dumbass.

[Spazito]

4. 'Of course I believe in evolution': science minister

Federal Science Minister Gary Goodyear moved to cut short a brewing controversy Tuesday over his views on evolution.

Goodyear raised eyebrows when he refused to tell the Globe and Mail if he believed in the science of evolution. But the minister of state for science and technology clarified Tuesday that he does indeed believe in it.

"We're evolving all the time," Goodyear said in an interview. "Of course I believe in evolution."

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Still, NDP science critic Jim Maloway questioned why Goodyear didn't just answer the question in the first place, and wondered if he was ordered by the Prime Minister's Office to snuff out any controversy by belatedly proclaiming a belief in evolution.

more

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/03/18/tech-090318-gary-goodyear-evolution.html

I guess harper felt this was gonna grow legs otherwise we would not have gotten this, imo.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Not nearly good enough.

[BlooInBloo]

5. He believes evolution is a matter of religion. Fuck him and all idiots.

[cobalt1999]

7. How did they put a chiropractor in charge of science?

No surprise he is suspicious of science. People don't trust what they don't understand.

Creationist Chiropractor in charge of science :rofl: My Canadian friends are going to get some serious shit over this one.