I swear - you couldn't make this schite up!

Mr Trade In · 13-09-2010 07:47PM

Ranks up there with Bertie being a Honorary Professor in the Business and Law Department in NUI Maynooth. Fcuking backwards country gets worse by the day.

Myrddin · 13-09-2010 07:56PM

johnmcdnl wrote: »

cell division is caused by god

I wonder which God he means.

sd2002 · 13-09-2010 07:56PM

They should have got Mary Coughlan to launch the book instead...

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/coughlans-no-einstein-after-gaffe-at-smart-economy-launch-1890227.html

Raze_them_all · 13-09-2010 07:57PM

Almost as shocking as having a severely obese person as the minster of health.

Thrill · 13-09-2010 07:57PM

He knows what he's talking about

Dennis the Stone · 13-09-2010 07:58PM

An embarrassment.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/09/how_about_the_irish_minister_o.php

bleg · 13-09-2010 08:05PM

If I open a jar of peanut butter and there isn't new life in there evolution doesn't exist.

Myrddin · 13-09-2010 08:05PM

Evolution clearly does exist, the correlation between a Hammer-Head Shark & the below link is undeniable really. No other creatures face is wider than it is high, that I can think of.

Link

Killer Pigeon · 13-09-2010 08:05PM

Yes, the world is also flat and the universe is geocentric.

kincsem · 13-09-2010 08:08PM

He likes the sound of his own voice.

KeithAFC · 13-09-2010 08:09PM

Our planet is billions of years old..

SeaFields · 13-09-2010 08:14PM

Anyone else see the irony in Conor Lenihan promoting a book that denies Darwins theory?

zenno · 13-09-2010 08:18PM

i watched the video's there and almost choked laughing LOL at least i got a laugh from it. :pac:

Mrmoe · 13-09-2010 08:19PM

I wonder how much the minister is getting paid for this.

Gummy Panda · 13-09-2010 08:25PM

Wrinkly baby disproves evolution

the fcuk...

Biggins · 13-09-2010 08:26PM

Mrmoe wrote: »

I wonder how much the minister is getting paid for this.

Maybe he's getting his copy of the book handed to him in a brown envelope!

looksee · 13-09-2010 08:27PM

The book is garbage, and badly written garbage at that. However I can't find any reference to Conor Lenihan attending the look launch that doesn't originate in an expose by Politics.ie. There could be a good bit of egg on face if they have got it wrong.

If FF have any sense they will make sure Politics.ie has got it wrong.

kincsem · 13-09-2010 08:28PM

Is Mr Lenihen trying to outdo Mr Gormless?

Biggins · 13-09-2010 08:29PM

looksee wrote: »

The book is garbage, and badly written garbage at that. However I can't find any reference to Conor Lenihan attending the look launch that doesn't originate in an expose by Politics.ie. There could be a good bit of egg on face if they have got it wrong.

If FF have any sense they will make sure Politics.ie has got it wrong.

http://www.atheist.ie/2010/09/science-minister-lenihan-to-launch-book-calling-evolution-a-hoax/

Minister Lenihan is ...attending a ‘Gorrillas and Girls’ party and a photo shoot with Charles Darwin and King Kong, where he will launch the book, The Origin of Specious Nonsense, written by his friend John G May. This is the type of argument that appears in the book to which Minister Lenihan is giving the credibility of his Office:

“The Empire State building cannot be supported on a styrofoam coffee cup from Dunkin Donuts, nor a rocket go to the moon on a litre of petrol from Shell, nor the sea fit into a child’s bucket on a Californian beach, yet there is more chance of all three happening (which never will) than for the awful soul destroying fiction of evolution to be true. The frog never changed into a prince, the gods of Egypt are fantasies, Dracula never existed, the King was naked, and evolution is a demonstrable hoax just as surely as Santa Claus.”

Of course, this is the same Conor Lenihan who five years ago described Turkish workers in Ireland as ‘kebabs’ during a Parliamentary debate. Lenihan was then Minister for Overseas Development and Human Rights; in the magical world of Irish politics, he was later appointed Minister for Immigration policy.

I mean - SERIOUSLY - is the boys of FF taking the piss or what!

Dempsey · 13-09-2010 08:39PM

Only in Ireland!

He should be sacked by Fianna Fail for being an idiot of the highest order

RGDATA! · 13-09-2010 08:47PM

he should be put on a ship and sailed off the edge of the earth

joseph brand · 13-09-2010 08:50PM

JustinOval wrote: »

Evolution is a hoax.

http://imgur.com/XnJyK.jpg

It's 'mothers'. Just saying.

Stooopid believers.

mconigol · 13-09-2010 08:59PM

JustinOval wrote: »

It evolved.

blasphemy :eek:

Killer Pigeon · 13-09-2010 09:03PM

Knowledge economy, eh?

Burkatron · 13-09-2010 09:10PM

Mrmoe wrote: »

I wonder how much the minister is getting paid for this.

If the catholic church has anything to do with the payment is it not the standard can of coke & a twix? :pac:

Jimmy444 · 13-09-2010 09:41PM

I'm tempted to send this to the Minister, but I'll leave it to the more level-headed among us to send more productive messages to him!

Minister,

For feck’s sake, what were you thinking? I know you are not the sharpest knife in the drawer, par for the course in your party, but promoting this putrid nonsense is surely one of your dumber moves. Since you clearly have a very poor grasp of scientific issues, could you not have at least checked with Sir Humphries first? I can confidently predict what his initial reaction would have been : "Minister, Minister, Minister, I implore you to reconsider this inestimable folly!"

Can I recommend some light reading for you that might help you actually understand what evolution is about? Richard Dawkins (yes, the devil himself) has written a very readable book, not quite at the Ladybird books level which might be more to you liking, but a good layman’s introduction to why the vastly overwhelming majority of the world’s biologists are convinced that this theory, the cornerstone of our understanding of all life on earth, is correct. The theory has been assaulted for the last 150 years without success, a tribute to Darwin’s enormous and careful research over many years before publication, unlike John J May’s amateurish tripe. The book by Professor Dawkins is called "The Greatest Show on Earth" and I’m sure Brian your big brother will help you with any long words you don’t understand. (ISBN 978-0-593-06174-9, Bantam Press).
Actually, you and he do pose a problem for the theory: how can one brother be so much smarter than the other if they both have the same parents? Don’t worry, biology explains that also.

On a serious note, you are the Minister for Science, Technology, Innovation and Natural Resources and you should not be putting your reputation behind a book which is more inspired by a daft religious opinion than by solid, peer-reviewed established scientific knowledge. Try to be an inspiration to the students of Ireland who need you to be a role model for rational inquiry into the truth. I’m confident that most of them have the sense not be influenced by your reprehensible lack of judgement. As a Minister, especially with the portfolio you have, you really should know better.

Yours Etc

Biggins · 13-09-2010 09:53PM

Richard Dawkins thoughts: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/517145-irish-science-minister-to-launch-anti-evolution-book

Conor Lenihan, Ireland’s Minister of State for Science, is to launch a book this Thursday that describes evolution as a scientific hoax. He says he is doing this because the author is a friend of his. This is an abuse of his Ministerial position, and an attack by the Irish government on both scientists and science education.

KyussBishop · 13-09-2010 09:54PM

I thought this level of idiocy only happened in America; simultaneously hilarious and unbelievable.

Anyone want to submit an article aboue it on Slashdot? (www.slashdot.org) Preferably with a nod to the blasphemy laws as well, to help publicize this and show the whole world what a joke our government is.

galwayrush · 13-09-2010 09:57PM

Dempsey wrote: »

Only in Ireland!

He should be sacked by Fianna Fail for being an idiot of the highest order

Oh, such ironing..:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

joseph brand · 13-09-2010 10:02PM

What a crack pot.

He argues the evolution theory, (or mashes it into the ground), but does he have his own 'theory'. I'm sure he doesn't know, just like the rest of us where we came from.

He has that crazy energy of a religious fanatic. Which probably comes from madness.

I swear - you couldn't make this schite up!

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