Edwin Poots is the favourite to replace Arlene Foster as leader of the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) in Northern Ireland. According to what I’ve read in the Guardian, he is a young Earth creationist who believes the planet is only 6,000 years old (a figure derived from adding up the lifespans of all the patriarchs descended from Adam, to establish the date of creation). “This is no small error”, according to Richard Dawkins. “It is equivalent to someone believing, despite the evidence, that the width of North America from one coast to the other is only seven metres”.
Licenced today: a warm, multilingual and pre-Covid welcome, displayed on an old church door...
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