Last year two Canadian bureaucrats from the Social Sciences and humanities Research Council (SSHRC) expressed doubts about evolution. Responding to a funding proposal, they wrote:
“Nor did the committee consider that there was adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of Evolution, and not Intelligent Design theory, was correct.” [source]
The latest Skeptical Inquirer had an article about a Canadian skeptic named Bruce Pendergast who contacted all 306 federal MPs demanding their action on this. Here was the response he got:
Much to my delight, I have received sixteen replies, including a personal response from the Minister of Industry himself, the Honourable Maxime Bernier. Apparently, many of those 306 MPs simply passed my letter on to his desk, since it is his portfolio that oversees the SSHRC…Bernier, a very well respected member of the Cabinet, also sent me a copy of the unofficial minutes of SSHRC, in which it is stated, “SSHRC issued a public statement on April 11, 2006, stating that the theory of evolution is not in doubt.”
Keep in mind this is what the federal Conservative Party believes and the federal Tories are not related to the provincial Tories which may or may not be run by complete idiots who say things like: “It’s still called the theory of evolution” and advocate teaching creationism in state-funded Madrasas.
