stand up for REAL science

Remember Tom Willis?

He's the head of the Creation Science Association of Mid-America who ghost-wrote the 1999 Kansas science standards, eliminating evolution, any mention of cosmology, and any reference to an earth older than 10,000 years. Steve Abrams tried to pawn himself off as the author of these standards, but the evidence showed otherwise.

Not long ago, Willis ranted that evolution supporters should be denied the right to vote and banned from contact with youth:

The facts warrent [sic] the violent expulsion of all evolutionists from civilized society. I am quite serious that their danger to society is so great that, in a sane society, they would be, at a minimum, denied a vote in the administration of the society, as well as any job where they might influence immature humans, e.g., scout, or youth, leader, teacher and, obviously, professor.

Now Willis has upped the ante. His latest broadside advocates this treatment of evolution supporters (all emphases mine):

*Labor camps. Their fellow believers were high on these. But, my position would be that most of them have lived their lives at, or near the public trough. So, after their own beliefs, their life should continue only as long as they can support themselves in the camps.

So once we science supporters can't work at hard labor, they'd kill us off. Echoes of Nordhausen, anyone?

*Require them to wear placards around their neck, or perhaps large medallions which prominently announce "Warning: Evolutionist! Mentally Incompetent - Potentially Dangerous." I consider this option too dangerous.

Wouldn't it be more economical require us to sew yellow beaker-shaped patches on our outerwear?

*Since evolutionists are liars and most do not really believe evolution we could employ truth serum or water-boarding to obtain confessions of evolution rejection. But, this should, at most, result in parole, because, like Muslims, evolutionist religion permits them to lie if there is any benefit to them.

Yep, that's right. Willis is leading the charge for torturing scientists.

*An Evolutionist Colony in Antarctica could be a promising option. Of course inspections would be required to prevent too much progress. They might invent gunpowder.

Sure. Ghetto-ize the ones who don't believe as you do. Again, it's sounding familiar.

*A colony on Mars would prevent gunpowder from harming anyone but their own kind, in the unlikely event they turned out to be intelligent enough to invent it.

Obviously Willis has never read Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," or he might think twice about this one . . .

*All options should include 24-hour sound system playing Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris reading Darwin's Origin of Species, or the preservation of Favored Races by Means of Natural Selection. Of course some will consider this cruel & unusual, especially since they will undoubtedly have that treatment for eternity.

It would be more consistent for Willis to insist that the science supporters be forced to listen to Willis' own particular interpretation of Scripture.

The ~~documentary~~ propaganda flick "Expelled"pummels viewers over the head with its over-the-top insistence that evolution=atheism=Holocaust. Tom Willis' own words bring to light the desire to stamp out all souls who don't agree with his own particular interpretation of Scripture.

Not all creationists are as extreme as Willis. Which makes me wonder why Steve Abrams & his cronies decided in 1999 that Willis was the ideal person to ghostwrite Kansas' science standards.

PS - for the record, Willis is not from Kansas.

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