Creationists Score Big In Alberta Human Rights Overhaul

A provincial document says the government needed to assure parents of their rights because "faith-based groups urged government to recognize -- as a right -- parents' role in making choices for their children."

"When asked about evolution, always a question since the monkey-human thing is a talker, the premier says 'parents would have the opportunity to make that choice.' Take that, Darwin."

A mixed bag then. Section 3 stays in, gays get an explicit mention...and Creationists can pull their kids from biology class when evolution comes up. Maybe also from Astronomy class. Can Muslim parents pull their kids from History class when Israel comes up? And why would anyone send their kid to Algebra? Sounds like a recipe for chaos.

A lot not to like about that.

Lunney Goes To Ground

After speculating in the HOC on Thursday that, were Darwin alive today, he might embrace Creationism, Nanaimo-Alberni MP James Lunney has gone into hiding:

Calls to Lunney went unanswered Thursday. On Friday, staff members at his Ottawa office said he was unavailable. When asked where Lunney was, Dale Wolley, his administrative assistant, said: 'He's not available to your beck and call,' and refused to answer.

Curtis Hansen, his constituency assistant in Nanaimo said Lunney was expected in the riding Friday afternoon and would give convey the message, but Lunney did not immediately return the call.

He's also got a prominent section on his webpage for "Lunney in the News", and "Speeches and Statements", but his Thursday speech and the reaction it occasioned are nowhere to be found.

An oversight I am sure.

Another Tory Creationist Emerges

From the HOC today:

Mr. James Lunney (Nanaimo—Alberni, CPC): Mr. Speaker, recently we saw an attempt to ridicule the presumed beliefs of a member of this House and the belief of millions of Canadians in a creator. Certain individuals in the media and the scientific community have exposed their own arrogance and intolerance of beliefs contrary to their own. Any scientist who declares that the theory of evolution is a fact has already abandoned the foundations of science. For science establishes fact through the study of things observable and reproducible. Since origins can neither be reproduced nor observed, they remain the realm of hypothesis. In science, it is perfectly acceptable to make assumptions when we do not have all the facts, but it is never acceptable to forget our assumptions. Given the modern evidence unavailable to Darwin, advanced models of plate techtonics, polonium radiohalos, polystratic fossils, I am prepared to believe that Darwin would be willing to re-examine his assumptions. The evolutionists may disagree, but neither can produce Darwin as a witness to prove his point. The evolutionists may genuinely see his ancestor in a monkey, but many modern scientists interpret the same evidence in favour of creation and a creator.

Another Chiropractor too. Weird.

And what the hell is a "polystratic" or polystrate fossil, you ask?

The word polystrate is not a standard geological term, and is found most often in creationist materials.[3]

Just another note, radiohalos are, unlike polystratic fossils, a real geological concept. But they are only a significant geological concept if you are a Young Earth Creationist, because they have been interpreted as evidence of...well...a young Earth.

So Mr. Lunney seems to have been verily steeped in Creationist pseudo-science, though not so much in real science.