Following on from the recent survey of Americans that demonstrated the triumph of Faith over Reason, we now appear to have a similar phenomenon emerging in Canada.

A recent survey reveals that 32% of Canadians who have read the Da Vinci code believe that the theories outlined in the novel are true – particularly that a holy bloodline exists and that this secret has been protected through the ages by a dedicated secret society.

Perhaps it’s time to put on the tin foil hat – there are obviously aliens beaming this stuff down to the western world and softening our brains…

P.S. I’m proud to note that I still haven’t succumbed to reading the Da Vinci code… 

Ophelia, over at the ButterfliesAndWheels blog, confesses that she doesn’t understand why people willingly sign up to elements contained in the statement of faith published by Patrick Henry College, a Christian university in the US. It’s probably because they don’t even think about what is being said.

Actually, the web page of the university setting out its mission and values makes fairly scary reading as a whole. I love the flip-flop when it comes to studying biology at PHC:

Creation. Any biology, Bible or other courses at PHC dealing with creation will teach creation from the understanding of Scripture that God’s creative work, as described in Genesis 1:1-31, was completed in six twenty-four hour days. All faculty for such courses will be chosen on the basis of their personal adherence to this view. PHC expects its faculty in these courses, as in all courses, to expose students to alternate theories and the data, if any, which support those theories. In this context, PHC in particular expects its biology faculty to provide a full exposition of the claims of the theory of Darwinian evolution, intelligent design and other major theories while, in the end, teach creation as both biblically true and as the best fit to observed data.

And then there’s:

Government systems such as communism and socialism, which give the government primary control over property, are a violation of God’s creation order.

And finally, we have:

Equality. We hold this truth to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. All human beings are created in God’s image, and all are precious and equal in His sight. Bigotry is a sin against God and man.

Perhaps the authors could ponder the extent of their own bigotry while reading Matthew 7:3. Clearly, some men are created more equal than others.

Oh well, for light relief, perhaps we should attend the PHC’s drama club’s production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband.