{"id":30,"date":"2007-06-20T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=30"},"modified":"2007-06-20T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T16:07:00","slug":"canadian-smugness-failing-must-read-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Canadian&#8230; Smugness&#8230; Failing&#8230; Must&#8230; Read&#8230;. Darwin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From yesterday&#8217;s Globe &#038; Mail, this flabbergasting factoid:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070619.wxlcreation19\/BNStory\/lifeMain\/\">Only 51% of Ontario residents accept the reality of evolution<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Even Americans do better, at 53%.  Nationally, Canada beats the States in the Enlightenment Sweeptstakes &mdash; at 59% &mdash;  but that&#8217;s not by very goddamn much. Sullen, resentful thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/davidnickle.blogspot.com\/\">Dave Nickle<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile The EU, wary of similar threats on their own shores (these ones arising largely from Islamic fundies rather than Christian ones), is entertaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070620.wcreate0620\/BNStory\/International\/home\">a resolution<\/a> (albeit a nonbinding one) to keep such easter-bunny stupidity out of their science classes. Evidently they regard creationism as a Human Rights issue.  Saddens me to say it, but maybe we need something along those lines here at home. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and okay.  I&#8217;ll look into this forum thingy.  Looks pretty straightforward.  Maybe  I can embed a poll or two therein, get some sense of how widespread your irritation might be with the current on-screen format.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Update\/Note o&#8217;Hope, 1750 CDT<\/span>:  Springer, the 800-lb gorilla of scientific publishing, is launching a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/west\/home\/life+sci?SGWID=4-10027-70-173740503-0\">new journal<\/a> explicitly designed to help science teachers defend against creationism in the classroom.  If you check out its Board of Directors you&#8217;ll find some pretty heavy hitters, including Dan Brooks, in whose whose lab I took up space for two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From yesterday&#8217;s Globe &#038; Mail, this flabbergasting factoid: Only 51% of Ontario residents accept the reality of evolution. Even Americans do better, at 53%. Nationally, Canada beats the States in the Enlightenment Sweeptstakes &mdash; at 59% &mdash; but that&#8217;s not by very goddamn much. Sullen, resentful thanks to Dave Nickle for the link. Meanwhile The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}