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Letter: European ignorance

Published 30 August 2006

From John Looney

Regarding your article on the attitude of Americans to evolution, I was shocked to find that 24 per cent of my fellow Irish answered “false” (19 August, p 11).

In the US at least, the issue is political and gets discussed in the news, so people can have a chance of learning both sides of the argument. But in many European countries we have a much larger problem with ignorance than we thought.

Dublin, Ireland

Issue no. 2567 published 2 September 2006

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