The Croatian journalist
If you can read Croatian, or want to chance the translation function (it didn’t do a bad job!), click on the screenshot below:
Here’s my Google translation of the headline:
And yes, I was alarmed, for religious (i.e., Catholic) education during classroom hours is a regular feature of Croatian public schools, with about 92% of kids taking this class. (Students don’t want to be apostates who opt out and sit alone in a room while their peers study Jesus.)
That’s unconscionable in a country that’s supposed to be secular. But Croatia is proving more religious than I assumed, especially for a country that not so long ago was under Communist domination.
Nenad added some data on the religiosity of Croatia (high) and on the percentage of citizens who accept evolution by natural selection (44%; higher than the 19% of Americans who accept naturalistic evolution—but of course the answers depend on how the questions are asked).
However, only 10% of Croatians accept evolution as occurring “under the guidance of a supreme being”, and one could compare that to the 39% of Americans who are theistic evolutionists (evolution occurred but was guided by God); another 39% of Americans are Biblical, young-earth creationists.
Nenad added this, which I solipsistically include: “[The interview] is one of the most popular on my web site Index today. Also many of my friends liked it very much.” It is the longest interview he’s ever published but, as he said, he “had no heart to cram.”
Thanks to Nenad for a fun time and for the publicity.
I don’t see any translation function option. Presumably there would be something like an “EN” to click on that would translate the entire page into English, but I don’t see it.
Same same
Nice head shot though. Still a young man.
You can always feed the URL into Google Translate.
AH-HA! Thanks. That works
Odd, it didn’t work for me.
I like this translated quote (in response to the contention that the faithful claims there isn’t evidence for the existence of god because he hides himself so people will believe he does via free will);
“Forgive the expression, but it’s just a shit.”
hee hee hee. I think something got lost in there but it’s a great quote.
Correct translation would be: “Forgive the expression, but this is just bullshit”.
When I past the URL, it translates the URL but not the indicated text. What am I doing wrnog?
hmmmm. Maybe a browser issue? I’m using Firefox and have the translator set to “detect language”.
When the url appears in the right window & the language highlighted above the window is correct CLICK the blue “Translate” button immediately above the right window
Thanks. That was helpful. I guess I wanted the machine to read my mind for me.
I happen to know Croatian. A more exact translation for the title would be:
“World renown biologist: I am horrified that Croatia does cathechism to its children”.
Not quite. The correct translation is
“I am horrified by what Croatia is doing to its children by catechism”
Yes, that’s it 😉
Submit!
I must have seen this left-handed DNA on hundreds of posters. Still, the vast majority of existing real DNA remains right-handed.