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The bottom line is that the science minister probably doesn't believe in evolution, but this doesn't really matter as much as the fact that he's a former chiropractor who undervalues lab research and would rather commercialize technology than fund important research. Way to sell out the country's health and science industries.
That said, I'm not comfortable with having a creationist as a science minister and I didn't vote for the Tories, nor will I in the foreseeable future. If he thinks the world is only 10,000 years old and that we're completely unrelated to chimpanzees, he shouldn't be in a position that decides who gets funding for research or other projects across the country.
Basically, we have a creationist in charge of federally funded scientific initiatives. Nice, eh?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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