Canadian Minister for Science and Technology won’t confirm belief in evolution

by E Wayne Ross on March 17, 2009

Globe and Mail: Minister won’t confirm belief in evolution
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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.