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[ILUG] OT: Irish minister for science helping launch ananti-evolution book?

[ILUG] OT: Irish minister for science helping launch ananti-evolution book?

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 22:30:54 IST 2010


On 13/09/10 22:24, Mark Dennehy wrote:
> Why would it be okay for *any* Government Minister to go in their
> official capacity as minister to the launch of a self-published book
> denouncing evolution, written by a crackpot

You are a psychology student or major?

with no scientific
> qualifications whatsoever,

Is the book about science?,
I don't know even the book been referred to,
And possible matters even less to me.

  while we as taxpayers pay that Minister for
> his time and mileage, and the author gets the financial benefit of the
> press coverage of a Ministerial appearance?

Would you be as voiceficerous, if he\she was attending a 
glen\Athiest\Immigrant\L||R-Wing Gathering?

Where said groups whether authors or not, may not represent the views of 
all-the populace.

What about a book by an Iman\Rabbi\Dalai Lamai etc..

Where first books are burned etc..



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