Stephen Black wrote:
>Mike Palij offered:
>>You might want to take a look at the editorial in this week's 
>>Nature:
>> 
>>|Editorial, Nature 458, 259 (19 March 2009) 
>>|Turkey censors evolution
>> 
>>Anti-evolutionism:  Not just for Christians anymore.
>
>Canada, with less than one-half the population of Turkey, 
>ranks 7th in the world in number of scientific papers 
>published and 6th in number of citations. 

Not to mention having one or two drinkable brewskis.

>Turkey is not on the list of the top 20 countries.
>
>http://www.in-cites.com/countries/2007allfields.html#Cites%20Per%20Paper  

Then again, Instanbul (once known as Constatinople) was a major 
center of civilization for hundreds of years.  I don't think that you
and Turkey want to see who has the longer list of accomplishments.
Or other longer things.

>In which country would you be more likely to expect top government 
>officials to be better informed and supportive of the theory of 
>evolution?

Uh, the one that doesn't invite former President Bush to come on up
to Calgary to give a major speech?
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Business/Arrests+made+raucous+anti+Bush+protest/1400923/story.html

>Shame on us. 

I hope you had your shoe(s) ready.

-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]


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