Evolution T-Shirt Banned in Missouri High School

Unbelievable.

“I don’t think evolution should be associated with our school.”

So I guess the biology classes are the next to go.

The fact that this Sherry Melby idiot is a teacher saddens me.

the Kingdom of God thinks I’m a Nazi

So a guy by the name of patrick wrote a comment to my Indy post from May 19. The comment itself was a little cryptic but harmless. Turns out patrick has a blog. In this blog, patrick talks about movies from the perspective of a born-again Christian. Which is Kool and the Gang. But then I read the following in his post on Ben Stein’s new movie, Expelled – No Intelligence Allowed:

Darwinism erects walls between those who believe correctly and those who believe incorrectly. This resembles the efforts of the Nazi party, who used walls to separate themselves from anyone they deemed unacceptable or (in honor of their Darwinian roots) insufficiently evolved. This helped them weed out the weak and imperfect (or anyone who didn’t support their cause). The holocaust was Hitler’s proud attempt at speeding along the evolutionary process.

So I decided I’d wanted to comment on being compared to Hitler. But someone beat me to the punch. I went to the comment section and a very civil, intelligent person by the nom-de-blog of “test” went through and quoted many of patrick’s points and refuted them with level-headed arguments and citations. (The comments section of the post in question can be found here.) patrick’s response?

hello “test”

your response goes like this:

a) a quote from my post
b) why i’m wrong and you’re right

… this pattern repeats until the end of your response. this is unoriginal, unproductive and unenlightening.

Oh yes, and if you study something a lot of course it’s going to affect your morality/worldview. if you are convinced that people are super-evolved animals, for example, you won’t see any harm in “weeding out the herd” as the Nazis attempted to do.

I can’t argue with that logic.

Maybe I shouldn’t have but I posted a response to patrick:

So when someone like test makes a cogent argument based on facts and what you said in your original post he is “unoriginal, unproductive, and unenlightening.” patrick, the intellectual exercise test is engaged in is called “debate” and it has been the accepted way to argue for and against a point for centuries. It blows my mind that someone would completely dismiss another person’s entire argument by dismissing the act of (civil) argument in and of itself.

And of course I (and all other non-murderous folks who accept evolution) have a problem with “weeding out the herd.” That’s like me saying that a Christian obviously has no problem with burning witches or the Inquisition.

Sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode, ya know?

Here is the imdb page for Expelled – No Intelligence Allowed.