How many errors can you spot in the following passage?
Just as Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams, stated that "A patriot without religion is as great a paradox as an honest man without the fear of God ...," I assert that any so-called Christian and most emphatically any member of Christian clergy who embraces the deception of Darwinian evolution is no more a Christian than the chimpanzees from which he or she claims to have evolved.
(Yes, that's right: the writer of this passage just asserted that the Pope isn't a Christian.)
To be sure, the source of the quote is the same outfit who offers up Chuck Norris as an expert in science and history.
The writer also seems ignorant of the fact that evolution doesn't claim that humans evolved from chimpanzees, but that humans and chimps and the [other] great apes have a long-ago common ancestor. In other words, the writer doesn't know or can't tell the difference between his distant cousins and his great^n-grandparents. There's a great difference between those two sets of relations - at least in most families, anyway.
But this passage provides just more evidence of what we knew all along: the troubles afflicting Kansas in 1999 and 2005 aren't the result of any conflict between science and religion. It's sectarian conflict, pure and simple, centered on how particular religious groups interpret Scripture differently.
posted by Cheryl Shepherd-Adams
