Cindy McCain in Congo to highlight violence (AP)

NAIROBI, Kenya ? Cindy McCain is teaming up with actor Ben Affleck to try to bring more attention to violence against women in Congo, as well as that country's upcoming presidential election.

McCain, the wife of Sen. John McCain, wrapped up a five-day trip to Congo and East Africa early Friday. During her visit she met with community organizations that help women deal with sexual violence, which is rampant in the large central African nation.

She also investigated whether the International Republican Institute, which her husband chairs, should get involved with November's election.

"When you talk about sexual violence against women in a country that's fledgling and trying to hold elections, it can affect elections," McCain told The Associated Press. "If the election becomes violent, women can be targeted."

McCain said a stable Africa helps the U.S.

"It's one less front we have to worry about and plus it's the right thing to do," she said.

McCain, who first carried out medical aid work in Congo in 1994, is a part of Affleck's Eastern Congo Initiative, which aids grass-roots groups in Congo. The two will travel to Congo in November for the election.

"I'm thrilled to be working with him, number one, and I've learned a great deal with him because he's a guy that gets the issues," McCain said of her partnership with the Hollywood star. "I enjoy being around him. We don't talk politics. We talk about African politics. And we both talk about our family. It's a very normal friendship."

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Darwinism creates nothing except jobs for Darwinists.

20 July 2011

From Leonard Krishtalka (July 19, 2011) at LJWORLD (Lawrence, Kansas), we hear the grim news, ?Science takes a beating in early presidential campaign?: Referring to candidate Michelle Bachmann?s comments,

?I support intelligent design,? she said, reported CNN. ?What I support is putting all science on the table and then letting students decide.?

Krishtalka disagrees, saying,

? knowledge of evolution is an economic necessity. It underpins U.S. and global R&D on the production of the world?s food, fiber, fuel and pharmaceuticals.

How, exactly does it do that?, a friend of Uncommon Descent writes to ask: ?Do you have a paper or quote that refutes the ?teaching more evolution increases the state?s economy? myth?

Friend, it?s much harder to refute utter nonsense than to refute a viable but mistaken proposition. This, as it happens, is utter nonsense. Promotion of Darwinism has a purely negative impact on economic growth: Darwinism creates nothing except jobs for Darwinists, many of them funded by taxpayers who doubt the ideology. It?s no accident that Bachmann is a Tea Party favourite.

We would get the same impact from instituting court-ordered astrology classes. Given sociologist Steve Fuller?s view that Darwinism is indeed today?s astrology, we?d be on track. But one form of legislated nonsense on the curriculum is enough, surely.

See also: Darwinism is the astrology of science

Darwinism is in the same sort of mess that floored astrology

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