{"id":2195,"date":"2009-03-17T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2009-03-17T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T11:59:00","slug":"yabba-dabba-doo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2195","title":{"rendered":"Yabba Dabba Doo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess we could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20090317.GOODYEAR17\/TPStory\/National\">shuffle him out<\/a>, and replace him with Day&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Canada&#8217;s science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won&#8217;t say if he believes in evolution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don&#8217;t think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate,&#8221; Gary Goodyear, the federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n<p>A funding crunch, exacerbated by cuts in the January budget, has left many senior researchers across the county scrambling to find the money to continue their experiments.<\/p>\n<p>Some have expressed concern that Mr. Goodyear, a chiropractor from Cambridge, Ont., is suspicious of science, perhaps because he is a creationist.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE<\/em><\/strong>: Paul Wells, of course, ignores the Flintstones jokes and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.macleans.ca\/2009\/03\/17\/the-quest-for-knowledge-in-goodyear-and-bad\/#more-43881\">looks at this rationally<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess we could shuffle him out, and replace him with Day&#8230; Canada&#8217;s science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won&#8217;t say if he believes in evolution. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don&#8217;t think anybody asking a question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}