All the president's apes

President Klaus's office has grown into a really fertile seedbed of various extreme opinions. Denying the global warming is a common agenda, and so is political-scientific analyses (in other words revealing attributes of leftism) of backpacks and drinking water bottles. From time to time, the President himself spices the discussion up by denying the Roma holocaust in the Lety camp, but his advisors do not lag behind. The second man of Klaus's office, Petr Hájek, has now shown that their invention has not dried up. "I am not descended from the apes," he said to open his contribution on darwinism at a seminar of the Center for Economics and Politics. By de facto advocating creationism, he irritated the biologists present at the event.

What is interesting is that in the atheistic Czech Republic was heard an opinion that meets with a response mainly in countries that find it difficult to harmonize their modernity with a strong religious tradition (Turkey, the USA). The belief in God - the creator and the findings of modern science are hard to put together for many people, and the most primitive solution to the dilemma rests in simply throwing one of the possibilities away as invalid. That's what narrow-minded positivist scientists did for a long time and what creationists and intelligent design advocates do in an even more bizarre way. For a realistic person – whether a believer or atheist …