Poland Also Infected By Misguided Creationists, And Catholics No Less.

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A few months old, but relevant none the less.

WARSAW (AFP) - Poland's deputy education minister called for the influential evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin not to be taught in the country's schools, branding them "lies."

"The theory of evolution is a lie, an error that we have legalised as a common truth," Miroslaw Orzechowski, the deputy minister in the country's right-wing coalition government, was quoted as saying by the Gazeta Wyborcza daily Saturday.

Orzechowski said the theory was "a feeble idea of an aged non-believer," who had come up with it "perhaps because he was a vegetarian and lacked fire inside him."

The deputy minister is a member of a Catholic far-right political group, the League of Polish Families. The league's head, Roman Giertych, is education minister in the conservative coalition government of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

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Anti-Evolutionary creationism is alive and well in Eastern Europe. In 2004 the Serbian Miniser of Education and Sport suspended the teaching of evolution for one week. She brouht it back only if creationism was taught along side it and then finally, grudgingly, allowed o to be taught unhindered and uncensored.