So yesterday I asked if Gary Goodyear, the Canadian Minister of State for Science and Technology was a creationist, because he was being pretty dodgy about his answer to the question, "Do you believe in evolution?" He got a lot of flak from this, both in the Globe and Mail, which broke the story, and by the blogs. Well, when asked the same question again, today he "clarified" his position:
“Of course I do,” he told guest host Jane Taber during an appearance on the CTV program Power Play. “But it is an irrelevant question.”
I'm calling shenanigans on him. Why? Because 1) he should have answered it in the first place -- if, by his reasoning, the question was irrelevant yesterday, it still is today, and 2) it is an extremely relevant question, given that he was couching his answers yesterday in religious terms. As I pointed out in ...
