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DEL.ICIO.USAnti-evolution memo stirs controversy
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Anti-Defamation League is calling on state Rep. Ben Bridges to apologize for a memo distributed under his name that says the teaching of evolution should be banned in public schools because it is a religious deception stemming from an ancient Jewish sect.
Bridges (R-Cleveland) denies having anything to do with the memo. But one of his constituents said he wrote the memo with Bridges’ approval before it was recently distributed to lawmakers in several states, including Texas, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
“Indisputable evidence — long hidden but now available to everyone — demonstrates conclusively that so-called ‘secular evolution science’ is the Big-Bang 15-billion-year alternate ‘creation scenario’ of the Pharisee Religion,” the memo says. “This scenario is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic ‘holy book’ Kabbala dating back at least two millennia.”
The memo calls on lawmakers to introduce legislation that would end the teaching of evolution in public schools because it is “a deception that is causing incalculable harm to every student and every truth-loving citizen.”
It also directs readers to a Web site www.fixedearth.com, which includes model legislation that calls the Kabbala “a mystic, anti-Christ ‘holy book’ of the Pharisee Sect of Judaism.” The Web site also declares “the earth is not rotating … nor is it going around the sun.”
The Anti-Defamation League says the assertions in the memo border on anti-Semitism.
“Your memo conjures up repugnant images of Judaism used for thousands of years to smear the Jewish people as cult-like and manipulative,” Bill Nigut, the ADL’s Southeast regional director, wrote in an e-mail to Bridges Thursday. “I am shocked and appalled that you would send this anti-Semitic material to colleagues and friends, and call upon you to repudiate and apologize for distributing this highly offensive memo.”
Bridges denied writing or authorizing the memo.
“I did not put it out nor did I know it was going out,” Bridges said. “I’m not defending it or taking up for it.”
The memo directs supporters to call Marshall Hall, president of the Fair Education Foundation Inc., a Cornelia, Ga.-based organization that seeks to show evolution is a myth. Hall said he showed Bridges the text of the memo and got his permission to distribute it.
“I gave him a copy of it months ago,” said Hall, a retired high school teacher. “I had already written this up as an idea to present to him so he could see what it was and what we were thinking.”
Hall said his wife Bonnie has served as Bridges’ campaign manager since 1996.
Bridges acknowledged that he talked to Hall about filing legislation this year that would end the teaching of evolution in Georgia’s public schools. Bridges said the views in the memo belong to Hall, though Bridges said he doesn’t necessarily disagree with them.
“I agree with it more than I would the Big Bang Theory or the Darwin Theory,” Bridges said. “I am convinced that rather than risk teaching a lie why teach anything?”
Bridges sponsored unsuccessful legislation in 2005 that would have required Georgia’s teachers to introduce scientific evidence challenging evolution.
Asked about the ADL’s call for an apology, Bridges said: “I regret that these people have been offended, but I didn’t offend them because I didn’t put the memo out.”
A Texas lawmaker says he is now “willing to apologize” for giving fellow legislators the memo Tuesday, The Dallas Morning News reported today.
“The stuff that causes conflicts between religious beliefs, you know, I’d never be a party to that,” Texas House Appropriations Chairman Warren Chisum told the Morning News Wednesday. “I’m willing to apologize if I’ve offended anyone.”
The newspaper reported Chisum made his comments after he learned the Anti-Defamation League was demanding an apology in a letter to his office.
The National Center for Science Education, an Oakland, Calif.-based organization that defends the teaching of evolution in public schools, said the assertion that evolution is linked to an ancient Jewish sect is “bizarre.”
“Evolution is recognized as a central unifying principle of the biological sciences by the scientific community and the education community,” said Glenn Branch, the center’s deputy director.
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By johny flanders
February 15, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this
I like what I have read and I appreciate you writing it.
By Jean Seixas Milner
February 16, 2007 8:27 AM | Link to this
Evolution and Big Bang are lies. Nothing is or ever was that isn’t or wasn’t created. You may have all the ingredients for a cake but, unless you put your hand to it, the cake will never be. You may have all the knowledge for a book but, unless you put it on paper, it will never be. You will never eat the cake or read the book if the flour, cream and butter sit next to each other on the counter, or the pen simply lays next to the paper on the desk. It doesn’t happen that way, a creator must be involved
By G
February 16, 2007 8:28 AM | Link to this
Publicizing nutcases only encourages more of the same.
By Ali G. Ator
February 16, 2007 8:33 AM | Link to this
We have evolved and will continue to evolve. Yes we came from uneducated, unethical, unbathed early forms of humans. No we did not start out as highly sophisticated, bright, men and women. Evolution is not a theory. Creatism was an early attempt by man to establish how it is we became educatable humans. The early writers of the Bible did not have the tools that we have today to scientifically reveal how we became who we are and how we got to where we are.
By God
February 16, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this
You are all so stupid. Why did ever create you people in the first place. What was I thinking?
By Atlantan
February 16, 2007 9:20 AM | Link to this
And we wonder why Georgia’s education system falls at the bottom of the stack…clearly there is a complete lack of understanding of science here. Thanks for the quote that “Evolution is recognized as a central unifying principle of the biological sciences” (maybe you should feature that type of information more prominently in your article?). Since that’s exactly what evolution is - it’s not controversial at all in the scientific world, in fact biology makes no sense without it.
Bridges apparently agrees with what was published, he just wants to distance himself now that it’s public and makes him look like a cretin.
By Bob Murphy
February 16, 2007 9:23 AM | Link to this
I find it truly astonishing that we’re being forced to argue not only evolution, but the fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun? What century is it again? Should I expect the Spanish Inquisition knocking at my door anytime soon? How long before Columbis sails from Spain to search for a shipping route to the Far East?
By Dave Henry
February 16, 2007 9:24 AM | Link to this
Evolution will fall just as the foolish tehory that the world was flat.
By The Other Steve
February 16, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this
It was not enough for the Republican-Americans to fight Evolution?
Now they are fighting the Copernicus theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun?
What next? Are Republican-Americans in Kansas going to start mandating we teach that the world is flat and is held up either on the back of Atlas, or upon the backs of four elephants?
By EastIndyGuy
February 16, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this
Jean Seixas Milner,
Prove to us that a without a ‘creator’ a series of events will never occur that result in the mixing and subsequent cooking of the ingredients for said cake.
Also, how do you explain the fact that light from stars over 13 billion light years away is visible to us? The only logical explanation would be that the ‘creator’ changed the speed of light so that we would be deceived to believe that the Universe is older than it is.
How about the fact that Carbon-13 has a set half life that can be used for dating organic remains. Did the creator change the half life of Carbon 13 in order to deceive us.
If ‘the creator’ did, then it is hardly a holy being and is not worthy of being worshiped. If it didn’t, then you have to accept the Big Bang theory and evolution.
I hate to put it in such absolute terms, but obviously you can not comprehend the underlying science behind the two principles.
By mkolb
February 16, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this
It just goes to show that if you give an idiot a microphone you just get a louder idiot.
By Les Horn
February 16, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this
What a numb nut.
By Les Horn
February 16, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this
Eating a lot of pork can make you think funny.
By Larry Brown
February 16, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this
Leave Bridges alone and slap Hall for going it alone and the Anti-Defamation League should be exiled to live alone on an island. Get on to more important matters and leave me alone!
By Meberman
February 16, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this
I think we need to change the name from “Creationist” to “Evolution Denier” to properly classify them in the same group with Holocaust deniers and any other who choose to deny the very strong evidence of a given theory or event in favor of their fantasies.
By Sam
February 16, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this
Are Republican-Americans in Kansas going to start mandating we teach that the world is flat and is held up either on the back of Atlas, or upon the backs of four elephants?
Actually, the Kansas school board just reversed itself (again) and has dumped creationist theories in favor of a full support of evolution. That makes Georgia the U.S. laughingstock as far as backward education systems go, and people like Ben Bridges are only making it worse.
By creationists??
February 16, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this
If God really created us wouldn’t have he made you guys smart enough to use proper grammar, spelling and not leave out words when typing??
By Larry Brown
February 16, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this
It actually makes Kansas a bigot.
By Nan
February 16, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this
What if God ‘created’ evolution? What if God clapped her hands to ‘cause’ the Big Bang?
By Mara
February 16, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this
“the earth is not rotating … nor is it going around the sun.”
WHAAaaaaaa?! ROTFLMAO!!!!!
a creator must be involved
and who created the Creator, then? Hmmmmm? And where’d that “Creator-of-the-Creator” come from? And the…well…you get my drift.
Ignorance is bliss, they say, so I guess these guys are about as blissful as one can get LOL!
By The72John
February 16, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this
Forget Anti-semitic…they direct people to a web site that says the earth neither rotates nor revolves. I think that speaks volumes about their credibility, or rather, complete and utter lack thereof.
The politicization of science by the far Religious Right in this country has gotten completely out of hand. At some point, rational people have to say “Enough!” to the blind, fanatical ignorance of the fundamentalists.
Islamic fundamentalists may be utilizing political terrorism, but Christian fundamentalists are using EDUCATIONAL terrorism. Guess which one is more damaging to the US in the long run.
By john cobarruvias
February 16, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this
It doesn’t happen that way, a creator must be involved
Maybe a creator was involved in creating the Big Bang?
By Marc
February 16, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this
How ironic that evolution is denounced as an aincient jewish myth… while the people who say this are in favor of the Genesis story, an aincient jewish myth.
By Brian S
February 16, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this
Marc says… How ironic that evolution is denounced
Now that’s funny!!
By Mara
February 16, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this
Hi ya John!! Avoiding the Dawg-poop are we? LOL!
By George
February 16, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this
What an embarrassment!! Bridges is a fool!!!! I live in the district and I find this shameful. It is because of people like Rep. Bridges and Sen. Schaefer that people from the North Georgia Mountains are look upon like a bunch of ignorant hicks! George
By The72John
February 16, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this
Hi Mara! You guessed it, plus the topic is not one I want to get into. Doing some light lurking this week.
Thanks for the Washington Post link!
By sturner
February 16, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this
I really like the irony of the religious fundamentalists who demand proof from science, yet require only belief for the propagation of thier own “theories.” When science starts making theories about God, then I’ll consider listening to religious fundamentalists beliefs about science.
By Mara
February 16, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this
yeah, no problem. I’ve been posting and lurking other places too. The topic sucked and the company…well…I’m pretty sure that all of the newbies are really just one person blogging with all the other voices in his head, if you know what I mean… LOL!
gotta scoot. paperwork, dammit
By J Peron
February 16, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this
We get silly comments like the one about how nothing can exist without a creator but which insists the “creator” exists and yet had no creator. So in fact something exists without a creator thus contradicting the very premise on which the argument is based. But then no doubt logic is another Jewish plot! No wonder people voted Democratic. Even Hilary is reasonable compared to this sort of lunacy.
By David
February 16, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this
Somehow it’s not surprising that a Georgia high school teacher holds such antedeluvian ideas.
By Jim
February 16, 2007 1:40 PM | Link to this
No wonder the rest of the country laughs at the south. How do such idiots get elected? Wait a minute, I forgot, it was the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq!
By martin h.greenberg,md
February 16, 2007 1:46 PM | Link to this
This is just the same kind of misinformed reasoning that has stirred up hatred for years. The remarks are more 19th century than 21st. No wonder that Georgia ranks so low nationally in education.
By tim
February 16, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this
Are they even 19th century remarks?
By Tom
February 16, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this
Please people of Cleveland GA, (one of the most beautiful parts of my state)prove to me that you are not troglodytes by not re-electing this troglodyte again. I’m so embarrassed to be from Georgia.
By Chopdawg
February 16, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this
Now we know what else the anti-evolutionists believe! That the earth doesn’t revolve around the sun and that it doesn’t rotate! What terrible wicked cult came up with those ideas?Maybe the next bumper sticker we’ll see is a picture of a flat earth—with the word “truth” emblazoned on it—squashing a round earth with the word “Darwin” inside.
We’ll probably have to re-think all the other “theories” also: I mean, who really knows the speed of light is 186,000 mi/sec? Has anybody really ever proved “e=mc2”? But the fixed-earthlings KNOW that evolutionary teachings date back 2,000 years! Guess some people knew all they needed to know, way back then.
By Bill
February 16, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this
‘Round and ‘round, again. It is really a large pile of dawg poop, reflecting the idiocy inherent in humans. This will not bridge any gaps nor will it build bridges-it is just an excuse for monkeys to throw crap at each other. The original memo is born of hate, whether acknowledged or not, and deserving of an apology (don’t hold your breath). It sullies the scientific process that gives evolution its credence and it sullies faith which does not require proof to reflect the beauty of the human soul. Both exist in perfect harmony, even if some won’t or can’t see it. Too bad all this effort and energy isn’t being put to something more relevant and useful. Bill
By JD
February 16, 2007 3:08 PM | Link to this
Does anyone else find it ironic that the anti-science “fixed earth” people have a website?
By Mark F.
February 16, 2007 3:41 PM | Link to this
I find it nearly impossible to believe that there are morons in the world who still buy the notion that creationism has anything to do with science. It boggles the imagination that anyone could be so stupid and still find a way to survive.
By Dino Olivieri
February 16, 2007 4:01 PM | Link to this
Cmon, people, the fact that there was a BIG BANG does not preclude a CREATOR. I have always believed that the Creator was ~sitting~somewhere in the "Outside Universe of Universes" and he decided to Big Bang it ! That is, he prepared the Primeval "atom" of his and then kicked it ... and there was the Big Bang. From then on, maybe the CREATOR is all but watching the development of THIS (OURS) universe and hasnt touched it ever since … or maybe ever so slightly…sometimes…on the macro scale, never bothering with ants like us humans, a by product of his fantastic U.
By osiris
February 16, 2007 4:39 PM | Link to this
Convoluted reasoning at best. Just being around these talmutic cretins should convince a rational being evolution was not a factor here, rather their presence can only be explained by the machinations of a malevolent deity.
By primate
February 16, 2007 4:39 PM | Link to this
cer·ti·fi·a·ble
By Trip
February 16, 2007 4:40 PM | Link to this
There is something in some people that makes them resist knowledge of reality. I think that is because knowledge tends to grow in the learning process, and folks either don’t want to understand facts or are incapable of understanding them. Other folks genuinely want a truthful understanding of the world.
Perhaps it is comforting to embrace imaginary characters, fantasies, and made-up, divine promises from gods. There’s nothing inherently wrong with striving for ignorance if it makes you feel good, I guess. But deliberately proposing to teach little children known false information is pure evil.
By Aaron Kinney
February 16, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this
Re: Jean Seixas Milner @ February 16, 2007 08:27 AM
Jean Seixas Milner says “Nothing is or ever was that isn’t or wasn’t created.”
The irony is that Jean Seixas Milner does not apply this supposed rule to the creator itself. This is known as special pleading. In other words, the crationist says “everything that ever exists MUST be created… except of course for my beloved creator!”
To make things worse, Jean Seixas Milner’s claim that everything was created is FALSE. There is a scientific law known as the law of conservation of matter/energy (aka the first law of thermodynamics) that says that matter and energy can NEVER be created nor destroyed; they merely change forms.
QED.
By Peter Pratt
February 16, 2007 5:06 PM | Link to this
“Religion has no place in a house of learning just like facts have no place in a church.”
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” - Stephen F. Roberts
By Green Child
February 16, 2007 5:06 PM | Link to this
Have either the evolutionists or the creationists come to the conclusion that if there is a God that IT isn’t as humans concieve of it in their minds?
What if God is existance and change? Wouldn’t that mean that God IS evolution?
just the random ponderings of one who is agnostic and wondering.
By Peter Parker
February 17, 2007 6:56 PM | Link to this
I don’t consider the so-called Fundamentalist Bible-beaters who want to take the nation that beat the Soviets to the moon back to the Middle Ages to be legitimate Christians. They are really neo-fascists who are using Jesus as a smokescreen for their less-than-savory political agenda.
If these people can get us to reject scientific fact in favor of mumbo-jumbo, then they win.
By D
February 19, 2007 8:47 AM | Link to this
How bout we just rewrite Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning, God caused the big bang.”
By (: Tom :)
February 19, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this
Should I expect the Spanish Inquisition knocking at my door anytime soon?
No one expects the spanish Inquisition!
Plus: I think everyone should hear this religiously insane Reich wingnut publicly bear false witness on behalf of his Invisible Sky Fairy. It helps the rest of us sort out who the superstitious idiots are, and how little we should pay attention to their words.
By CaseyL
February 19, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
If Earth doesn’t rotate, what holds it up?
Elephants and a turtle?
OK, but what’s holding them up?
By David Edwards
February 19, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this
If the ju-ju nutjobs ever get their way and impose their nauseating Dark Ages dystopia upon civilised nations, who will they go to in order to get their cars and cellphones fixed? Who will they go to in order to have their various diseases cured?
Oh, I forgot. That’s going to be the unfortunate fate of the rest of us. They’ll doubtless cling to their luxuries and toys (denied to the rest of us unfortunate serfs) whilst telling us how ennobling it is for us to suffer in the name of their theological masturbation fantasies. So we will all end up enduring a Hobbesian existence just so that they can jack off to their twisted conception of Jeebus, whilst of course, as the self-appointed Elect, they will continue to enjoy the fruits of all that evil Jewish science because they’ll have salted away enough swindled loot from the rest of us to pay for it (probably imported from Japan).
Well, I say “we”, I’m fortunate enough to live on a different continent where such wingnuttery is a source of amusement. However, there are people I am fond of living across the water, and I’d rather not see them go the way of all too many of my ancestors in the Middle Ages thank you, especially NOT because certain wackjobs want to watch re-runs of the Inqusition in their underpants.
By maxhnb
February 19, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this
This is the Old Racist KKK Technology rearing its head once again. Link something to the Jews or the Blacks and then condemn it on that basis.
It still seems to work in GA and South Carolina which shows that some things never change in the sickness.
But in all the condemnation of Evolution vs creationism. there should also be an attack on creatonism as coming from the Jewish religion, the first book of the Torah.
By scott
February 19, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this
*By CaseyL
February 19, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
If Earth doesn’t rotate, what holds it up?
Elephants and a turtle?
OK, but what’s holding them up?*
Everyone knows that - it’s turtles all the way down!
By Mike Sky
February 19, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this
ok. Here are the questions I have for all the nuts who support creationism:
God sent down his only son? Why was he the only son? Did god get a hysterectomy or something?
Soddom and gommorra. He had to send an angel to restroy them? he couldnt be bothered himself? He had something else to do that day?
Why is there a gap between when the bible says the christ was born and the time he is 32? did he like took a vacation or something?
One word - Dinasaurs.
Two words - Asian Race. If god created a Man in his own image, who’s image did he use to create africans and asians? His brother?
The bible was written many many many years after the events in it ‘happened’.
God rested on the 7th day. Why? If he has no begining or the end, why does he need to rest? If His energy is limited, then wouldn’t that make Him limited too?
I could go on for a very very very long time on this. The creationism is drilled into you when you are going to church. I suggest you question things that you do not understand. Thats where real power of a human brain comes from - choice.
Plus more here:
http://www.angelfire.com/ok5/pearly/htmls/gop-evolution.html
By Bruce
February 19, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this
If evolution is clearly ruled out by the “reasoning” that all things must have a creator, what about the Creator itself that by its powers and omniscience must be the most complex being and wonder of the universe? This line of “reasoning” thus cannibalizes itself and exposes itself as philosophical fraud. It clearly requires a major exception to its main premise. If one believes in a God, one most obviously believes in the existence of at least one superlatively complex life form without the need for a creator. The entire premise of such logic (that attempts to simply negate evolution) is actually itself destroyed by the belief in a creator.
By Ronnie B
February 20, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this
Hold on now. Let’s not forget the focus of the discussion. Bridges basically agrees with the allegation that the theory of evolution is some kind of Jewish conspiracy.
It seems clear that many people can afford to learn something about the Old Testament. You know … with all those Jewish people?
Then, take a stroll through the New Testament. There was a Jewish kid born to a virgin. That Jewish kid also comes from Jewish people created by God.
So can we dispense with this ridiculous notion that Jewish people are responsible for perpetuating the theory of evolution?
By Rick in Lawrenceville
February 20, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this
Ignorance of these common scientific theories is just one more example of why we need more science classes in Georgia. The adult population is sorely lacking in the ability to understand scientific principles. This also applies to many of the educators/teachers in the state.
By not fooled
February 20, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this
I believe in God. I also respect your belief to not believe in God. I would like to add that if not for the Jews, there would be no Jesus.
By Koz
February 20, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this
Just because it is a fact that God created Earth does not mean that evolution is not real.
Microevolution is definitely real and can be proven.
Macroevolution and the big bang are not real and just the liberals way to try to deny the existence of God.
Take a look at these videos http://www.drdino.com/downloads.php
By TRUTH
February 20, 2007 12:53 PM | Link to this
GOD’S WORD
By I'm Right!
February 20, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this
GOD IS DEAD! Get over it!
By Honest Abe
February 20, 2007 1:58 PM | Link to this
Jesus didn’t marry? Maybe jesus was F*?
By Martha Likes Pancakes
February 20, 2007 2:40 PM | Link to this
Has anyone stopped to consider how dangerous this “Creationist” propaganda is…. Slavery was once justified by “the good book” and I guess it’s ok now to enslave free thinking too.
By Cleopatra Jones
February 20, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this
interesting, that fundamentalist islam prevents people from accepting ideas that don’t follow EXACTLY what their book says. Time to break out those burkas girls, because if these nuts get any power they’re going to make EVERYONE conform to thier particular BELIEFS. Just ask the folks in Iran about all that. There is abosultely no difference between the zealots of islam that condone terroism and death to those who don’t believe EXACTLY they way they do and these bible thumpers who would convert all the non-believers in jesus camps!
By Trial Lawyer
February 20, 2007 5:00 PM | Link to this
I’m embarrassed that Ben Bridges is my elected state representative. He really made a “monkey” out of himself on this one.
By Jim
February 21, 2007 9:07 AM | Link to this
Religion is a mental illness. There are varieties, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, but they are all manefestations of mental illness.
It’s call delusion when one person suffers from it, but when a million or more suffer from the same strain, we call it a religion.
By cubiclegrrl
February 21, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this
Hey, Koz: Nice job linking to a Dr. Dino website. Really boosts your credibility, bud. After all, if you can’t believe a guy who’s in jail for tax fraud (because he believes that his religion puts him above even getting a building permit for his theme park), who can you believe?
By GOD
February 22, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this
First of all, you religious nut cases have it all wrong. The only thing I had a hand in creating was Twinkies. YUM.
If you nutters would take the time to take your collective heads (which were MEANT to house brains something you seem to lack) out of your asses (which it seems is how you made up for lack of brains) and actually look around this marvelous universe you would clearly come to a less anthropomorphic view.
You humans are so insignificant but yet you still insist that you are the center of the universe! In all honesty you guys were a mistake, never meant to happen (Damn Evolution! Never gives me the results I want!) . I’ve tried my best to fix that error (you guys recall all those meteorite impacts? Those plagues and floods? Well I wasn’t aiming at the Dinosaurs!).
I normally don’t like to interfere with Evolution (who the hell do you think created THAT?) but some of you are such morons I had to nudge you along a bit. Carbon Dating, Paleontology, Geology, Peer Review, Common Sense, Critical Thinking…Do you think you guys thought all this up yourselves?!?!
You humans always take my WORD and twist it all around. Witch Hunts, Holy Wars, Spanish Inquisitions, Ethnic Cleansing, Intolerance, Bigotry, Racism, Hunger…I could go on. But yet you insist on putting blinders out and ignoring me when I do try to talk to you.
Oh well…. Now where is that comet again?
By Mike
February 23, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this
New! Improved! Evolution happening even TODAY!
Link: today’s Washington Post article
amazing.
I’m a very passive, non-violent person. These anti-evolutites make me want to evolve into a rather violent person.
By Bruce Will
February 23, 2007 2:52 PM | Link to this
It’s stuff like this that gives ignorance and bigotry a bad name.
By Canadian
February 26, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this
This debate will continue to make Americans the laughing stock of the world. What’s the matter with you guys? Haven’t you seen what mixing religion and state has done to Iran and Afghanistan? Is this really where you want to go? What’s wrong with relying on reason instead of superstition and magical beliefs?
Oh well… If life is really a matter of survival of the best adapted, I guess you guys are doomed in the very short term. Who on earth will want to hire a scientist educated in Georgia?
By Super Atheist
February 26, 2007 1:13 PM | Link to this
You sound like Ned Flanders, John Flanders. Any moron who beleives evolution is still just a theory clearly is too closeminded to learn anything. HEY MORONS, EVOLUTION IS A LAW IN ALL ASPECTS THAT YOU ARE CONSIDERING!!! Go read a book, idiots.
By Mushinronjya
February 26, 2007 4:35 PM | Link to this
Anyone that says that evolution never happened, and a “creator” made it all so, are retarded. What made the creator? They are complete d******* that don’t know jack about science, but attempt to suggest that they know what they are talking about.
Get a freakin clue you retards.
Evolution is science. Your god is something we pulled out of our asses.
By Deggial
February 27, 2007 2:47 PM | Link to this
Now, I wonder if it is really “defamation” to credit (albeit wrongly) an ancient Jewish sect for figuring out the nature of evolution and its role in the development of life on this planet.
By js72
February 28, 2007 12:10 AM | Link to this
Right; Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, and the entire scientific community are all part of an international Jewish conspiracy set on attacking Christians…
Fundies never cease to make me laugh. And for you Bible literalists out there, when was the last time Holy Books were correct about something and scientists were wrong? Never.
By bethiris
February 28, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this
Ben Bridges, a great example of devolution.
By Rich
February 28, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this
Let me get this right, the christians say they can’t be wrong in their opinions about god, but say the Atheists can be wrong in their opinions about god. I wish I was a smart christian so I could figure out all the questions in the world. I will keep learning from the christians, I allready found out that the earth is flat.