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Snuckles
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posted 15 October 2006 02:17 AM

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Sat Oct 14, 11:00 AM ET
WARSAW (AFP) - Poland's deputy education minister called for the influential evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin not to be taught in the country's schools, branding them "lies."
"The theory of evolution is a lie, an error that we have legalised as a common truth," Miroslaw Orzechowski, the deputy minister in the country's right-wing coalition government, was quoted as saying by the Gazeta Wyborcza daily Saturday.
Orzechowski said the theory was "a feeble idea of an aged non-believer," who had come up with it "perhaps because he was a vegetarian and lacked fire inside him."

Read it here.

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Stargazer
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posted 15 October 2006 05:37 AM

Now how did I know that was going to come from some right wing kook. I guess Michelle and I must be bull goose looney! Damn us all to hell - us wacky vegetarians with no fire inside (I guess that means we are spared from The Burning Hell.)

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Yst
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posted 15 October 2006 05:56 AM

Being many years a vegan, I must admit I'm really not very firy inside at all. I'm mostly rather damp, from what I gather. Goes with the territory, being an ugly bag of mostly water.

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Fidel
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posted 15 October 2006 09:06 AM

solidarnosc!

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M. Spector
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posted 15 October 2006 09:39 AM

You left out the best part of the article:

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The deputy minister is a member of a Catholic far-right political group, the League of Polish Families. The league's head, Roman Giertych, is education minister in the conservative coalition government of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

So it's really a dog-bites-man story.

However, it does tend to justify every Polish joke I've ever heard...

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otter
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posted 16 October 2006 12:27 PM

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However, it does tend to justify every Polish joke I've ever heard...

It is indeed interesting to see one form of narrow minded prejudice answered by yet another narrow minded prejudice

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farnival
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posted 16 October 2006 12:58 PM

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"The theory of evolution is a lie...
Orzechowski said the theory was "a feeble idea of an aged non-believer," ...

so, if Darwin was a "true-believer" of some sort then would evolution be fact, like the bible is to true-believers?

oh boy, you just can't write this sort of material.

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