{"id":470,"date":"2006-10-15T10:12:34","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T10:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2006\/10\/15\/darwinism_dont_touch_it_with_a_ten-foot_pole\/"},"modified":"2006-10-15T10:12:34","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T10:12:34","slug":"darwinism_dont_touch_it_with_a_ten-foot_pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2006\/10\/15\/darwinism_dont_touch_it_with_a_ten-foot_pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwinism: don’t touch it with a ten-foot Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miroslaw Orzechowski, the deputy education minister of Poland, told a national newspaper that he thinks that Darwin’s theory of evolution should not be taught in schools because it is “a lie… that we have legalized as truth.”
\nAccording to Orzechowski<\/a>, the theory is “feeble”, and Darwin himself was an “aged non-believer,” not to mention “a vegetarian” (gasp).
\nI don’t even know where to start with this report. How is this man in charge of education? Since when is Poland part of the American Bible Belt? What the heck does vegetarianism have to do with anything?
\nOf course, the irony is that if Darwin really was<\/i> right, surely the idiots would have been bred out of the human race by now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miroslaw Orzechowski, the deputy education minister of Poland, told a national newspaper that he thinks that Darwin’s theory of evolution should not be taught in schools because it is “a lie… that we have legalized as truth.” According to Orzechowski, the theory is “feeble”, and Darwin himself was an “aged non-believer,” not to mention “a … <\/p>\n

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