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Canada’s Minister of Science, a self-described Christian, turns out to be a Creationist as well who won’t affirm that he believes in the scientific theory of evolution. I wonder if he knows that Christians are allowed to believe in evolution? Even the Catholic Church has called Creationism a “pagan” belief.

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…

“It is the same as asking the gentleman, ‘Do you believe the world is flat?’ and he doesn’t answer on religious grounds,” said Dr. Alters. “Or gravity, or plate tectonics, or that the Earth goes around the sun.”

Minister won’t confirm belief in evolution

(Thanks, Stuart!)

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You have to love monkeys like these.

A monkey who was forced to climb palm trees by his owner took revenge by killing him with a coconut.

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Foodimentary: “An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup”~B Russell

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Google Reader, Google’s online feed aggregator, has finally added commenting functionality, allowing friends to discuss their shared items.

To add a comment, click the “Add Comment” link at the end of your friends’ shared items. The new “Comment View” menu item in your “Friends’ shared items” section displays all items with comments. (Note: Commenting isn’t currently available in the “All Items” views.)

Last year, Google Reader expanded its sharing capabilities so that users could add and share notes with friends. The problem being that the conversation was completely one-way. If your friend commented on an article they were sharing, you couldn’t reply to them directly.

On the same day that feature was released, Paul Buchheit announced via Twitter that FriendFeed would automatically import these notes, enabling the conversation to continue over on FriendFeed instead, so many Google Reader users have already been doing this for some time.

Since you can also add comments to all kinds of other services on FriendFeed – like RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, etc. – I doubt users of both Google Reader and FriendFeed will benefit from this new functionality as it will fragment their conversations even more.

Don’t get me wrong, I think this is a good feature to have, but for FriendFeed users it’s at least 10 months too late…

[Via Official Google Reader Blog and Official Google Blog. Thanks TOMHTML!]

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