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Wrong man for the job? Some quotes from Israel’s Education Ministry’s Chief Scientist

February 22nd, 2010 | Add a Comment

Some quotes from the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Education Ministry Gavriel Avital has the Israeli scientific community irate.

Quotes like”I don’t recycle, I put plastic in the trash. The earth will not be harmed, God promised us,” “Man does not cause global warming.”

Not surprisingly he’s not a big supporter of the theory of Evolution either.

If textbooks state explicitly that human beings’ origins are to be found with monkeys, I would want students to pursue and grapple with other opinions. There are many people who don’t believe the evolutionary account is correct,” Avital said yesterday. “

Where did they find him?

Avital is the ministry’s first chief scientist to be drawn from outside the community of education scholars. A 20-year Likud member, he represented the party in an unsuccessful 2006 Knesset run.

Possibly not the best match for the job.