non-violent coup by the ruling military junta.

So far, no major violations at the polling stations have been reported. Egypt’s High Elections Commission, however, has warned against acquiring pens from vendors near the polling stations. The pens are said to contain ink which will disappear shortly after the ballot is cast, leaving the bulletin invalid.

The General Secretary for the Commission has instructed the police and army to detain those selling or otherwise distributing the pens. He added that the Commission has provided all polling stations with enough pens. Voters therefore are discouraged from using their own writing instruments.

The official results are set to be announced on June 21. But with neither a parliament, nor a new constitution in place to define the president's powers, some experts doubt the votinghave confined myself to science."

Darwin studied theology at Christ's College, Cambridge at the suggestion of his father but preferred to spend his time collecting specimens with a select circle of naturalists. It was Darwin's mentor John Henslow, a clergyman and a professor of Mineralogy at Cambridge, who nominated the 22-year old Darwin for the history-making voyage on the Beagle. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published in 1859 and it was then that Darwin's faith in religion or lack thereof became the subject of public controversy. Darwin died in 1882, the greatest naturalist of his age. Rumours of a deathbed conversion were widely believed but firmly denied by his daughter.