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] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
