Sunday, August 5, 2018

I'm not sure who wrote this but it's excellent. It's about the evidence for evolution and the anti-science know-nothing religious assholes who want to throw out all of science. I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.

Charles Darwin published the Origin of Species over 150 years ago, and a lot has happened in the past 150 years of biological SCIENCE that has both verified and vastly illuminated evolution. There are, literally, several hundred research articles relevant to various aspects of biological evolution published in the professional peer-reviewed science literature *every year*. (Not to mention specifically the fossil evidence of specimens of transitional ancestors of humans such as Homo heidelbergensis, Homo ergaster, and Homo habilis, among others, and all the recent genome studies that prove the close evolutionary relationship of humans and chimpanzees, detailed evidence which the creationist letter writer here just blithely pretends doesn't exist.)

Creationism on the other hand is a religious doctrine based on a mythological story (i.e., the real "fairy tale") in the Bible and isn't science at all. Which is why, when creationists spout rhetoric in which they pretend that evolution is religion, and their religious doctrine is science, I always thank them for proving the deeply irrational nature of creationist rhetoric.

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