The Religion of Neodarwinism Update...

...or, I double dog dare ya to prove it!

From the Globe and Mail (via WND):

Council cited failure to prove evolution as a reason for denial of $40,000 funding

McGill University wants a federal agency to review its decision to deny funding to a research project examining how intelligent-design theory is being accepted in Canada.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council refused $40,000 in funding to McGill professor Brian Alters, citing among its reasons that he did not prove scientifically accepted evolutionary theory in his proposal.

Eva Schacherl, a spokeswoman for the council, said yesterday that the multidisciplinary committee was not convinced the proposal's scholarly approach was sound or that it would provide objective results on the question.

Dr. Alters, director of McGill's Evolution Education Research Centre, acknowledged those reasons were contained in his rejection, but he was amazed he was expected to prove established scientific fact.

"Evolution is not an assumption -- it's a fact of science," he said in an interview. "If someone was writing a proposal to investigate how people think about gravity, the researcher would not have to justify gravitation theory in the proposal."

Ah, but there's the rub, doc. If one had to prove gravity's existence, one could.

You see, doc, gravity wasn't always as popular as it is today. It had to be "justified" again and again for centuries.

Now, what exactly is your excuse, doc?