Loonies 1 - Sanity Nil

A Professor of Physics and Astronomy from the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates has addressed a conference organised by the British Council to celebrate the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth, and made a real doozy of a claim.

"He told his audience that in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia, only 15 per cent of people surveyed believed Darwin’s theory was “true” or “probably true”.

A poll he conducted at his own university showed that 62 per cent of Muslim professors and students believed evolution to be an “unproven theory”, compared with 10 per cent of non-Muslim professors."

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Yep... they're everywhere folks. Rational thought takes another one in the goolies.

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