It's funny sometimes to see how creationism's corpse twists in the wind. Especially when that wind is generated by the screeching of the anti-evolution activists in Texas.
The latest screech comes to us by way of the Texas Freedom Network. They're featuring an email from Texas
Subject: JEFFREY DAHMER, SERIAL KILLER, BELIEVED IN EVOLUTION - WHY "WEAKNESSES" NEEDS TO STAY IN TEXAS SCIENCE STANDARDS - 1.31.09
Of course that subject line is calculated to get your attention, like the big bold headlines of the National Enquirer ("I HAD ELVIS' ALIEN BABY!") at the supermarket checkout stand. But there's plenty more wrong with the email, and TFN addressed some of the more egregious errors.
We also need to recognize that although Garner isn't the original author of the screech - that dubious honor belongs to a Kelly Coghlan - she proudly endorses its content in a comment at the TFN blog:
It was with much pleasure that I sent out Kelly Coghlan's commentary because I totally support what he has said. Since his signature was clearly seen at the end of the commentary, it is obvious to any educated person that he wrote the article, not I.
What's also obvious to any educated person is that Garner is desperate to pull the wool over her
This year, 2009, is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin (born in 1809), author of Origin of the Species. Atheist groups across America are using this anniversary to move aggressively to force all 50 million public school students to be taught that macro-evolution . . . [edited out bad science] . . . is a fact - without allowing the teaching or discussion of the scientific "weaknesses" increasingly being discovered concerning the theory of evolution. Texas, with its 4.7 million students, was selected as the first state to conquer. And, so far, the atheists are winning in Texas.
The email uses the standard technique of questioning the faith of a couple of opposing board members:
All [3 Republicans who voted against "weaknesses"] claim to be conservative Republicans. Bob Craig says he is a "strong Christian." . . . Democrat Mr. Larry Allen . . . is a Muslim, and, if following his faith, should have voted to keep "weaknesses."
As usual, the anti-evolutionists can't grasp the fact that there are devout Christians who accept evolutionary theory as the best scientific explanation for how life has changed on earth. According to the anti-evolutionists, they're not Real ChristiansTM.
The only connection between evolution and serial killing is that REAL science supporters are constantly called upon to conquer
Note: thanks to txjak for pointing out my (now fixed) error.
posted by Cheryl Shepherd-Adams
