This is about Idiot Tennessee in 1925. Evolution still makes Tennessee cry. Evolution still makes Christian retards and Muslim scum cry.

Wikipedia

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

I wrote this post about 10 years ago. It's about the breathtaking stupidity of Christian fucktards.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Christianity, the zombie religion.

zombie: a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force

Resurrection: The resurrection of Jeebus is the belief that Jeebus returned to bodily life on the third day following his death by crucifixion. It is a key element of Christian faith and theology.

Try to imagine how stupid, gullible, and batshit crazy a person has to be to believe in the idiotic Jeebus zombie fantasy. The belief is so insane that if not for the vast numbers of American tards who are infected with the Christian disease these idiots would be locked up in asylums.

What's interesting is the Jeebus = zombie bullshit is a required belief for Christian morons. If they don't accept the ridiculous idea that a Master of the Universe would use this disgusting magic trick to prove its existence, then they are not real Christians.

The same Christian assholes who believe in the Jeebus zombie think they're qualified to tell biology teachers how to do their jobs.

Fuck off and die Christian scum. You have disgraced my country long enough.

Somebody wrote this ridiculous "Idiot America" stuff. He was joking but he made a good point. 40% of American morons believe in the magical creation of people.

Writer questions ‘benefits’ of Creationism

By Reader Submitted

May 14, 2021

Some may be unaware, but there is a renewed effort to have “Creationism” taught in our public schools: “Just think of the benefits in furthering our children’s education if this could be achieved,” Creationists contend.

I have thought about it. With Darwin and evolution marginalized, the boys in anatomy class can now be enlightened that they were created from a pile of dust. The girls, well, they can now finally be assiduously informed as to their genesis, Adam’s rib.

Imagine the wonderment in English 101 when students learn about the linguistic skills of a talking snake, and the loquacious conversation it had with Eve in the Garden of Eden.

And just think of the self-confidence they will have after geology class, going out into the world armed with the knowledge that the Earth is not 4.5 billion years old as science says, but is only 6,000 years old as Creationists teach.

In chemistry, young adolescent minds will now acquire a clear understanding of how water was “miraculously” turned into wine; and in physics, its budding unfledged potential Rhodes scholars will now scrupulously be able to investigate and examine how women grew wings and were capable of flight (according to Revelation) – and I thought Orville and Wilbur were “First in Flight.”

Someone really ought to let North Carolina know their state motto is, at least from a historical perspective, not factually accurate.

Perhaps the Creationists are right; it is about time Creationism, faith and belief replace science, reason and thinking in our public schools; the secularists have had it their way long enough.

Borden Applegate Jackson

Today is May 13, 2021. I created this blog in December 2010, more than 10 years ago. I wrote this post on December 26, 2010. A previous blog I created was vaporized by Google. Fuck you Google.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

If Christians ever grow up and stop acting like idiots, I will stop calling them idiots. Until then the relentless ridicule will continue because you Christian assholes are no better than terrorists.

The problem with you retarded Christians is not your breathtaking stupidity, your cowardly fear of reality, your refusal to educate yourselves, and your tendency to lie about everything to defend your childish fantasies. Despite these character defects, if you assholes ever learned how to shut the fuck up, I could learn how to ignore you.

But you subhumans can't keep your stupidity and your dishonesty to yourselves. You cowards are constantly attacking science education. Every day you indoctrinate your own children, making them permanently brain-damaged and hopelessly retarded like yourselves. You support the massive Liars-For-Jeebus industry, a lucrative business that does everything it can to keep Idiot America stupid.

Christians, I can't ignore your out-of-control insanity. So until you learn how to shut up, or better yet you learn how to grow up and escape from your childish magical fantasy world, I'm going to ridicule you imbeciles to death, because that's what you deserve.

More stuff about Idiot America at Wikipedia: "History of the creation–evolution controversy"

History of the creation–evolution controversy

The creation–evolution controversy has a long history. In response to theories developed by scientists, some religious individuals and organizations questioned the legitimacy of scientific ideas that contradicted the literal interpretation of the creation account in Genesis. Interpretation of the Judeo-Christian Bible had long been the prerogative of an orthodox priesthood able to understand Latin who traditionally held that Genesis was not meant to be read literally and taught it as an allegory. With the advent of the printing press, the translation of the Bible into other languages, and wider literacy, sundry and more literal understandings of scripture flourished. This allowed some religious persons and groups to challenge scientists who supported evolution, such as biologists Thomas Henry Huxley and Ernst Haeckel.

There is a lot more Idiot America stuff. I suggest click the link.

Here in Idiot America we have millions of science deniers. Evolution makes them cry. This post is about a TV show called "The Simpsons" and Wikipedia.

Lisa decides to bring the family to the museum to see a weaving exhibit for her summer vacation, but they soon discover that it has been replaced by a "History of Weapons" exhibit. Faced with an incredibly long line, Homer notices Ned Flanders and his sons at the front of the line and cuts in front of them. Everyone else starts taking advantage of Ned’s kindness as well until the Flanders family is stuck at the end. At the end of the day, they are still waiting, and are denied entry, as it is closing time for the weapons exhibit. They decide to check out the human evolution exhibit next door. Ned is outraged to hear that humans actually evolved from apes and that the creation account in Genesis is therefore a myth. Covering his sons' eyes, he forcefully drags them out of the exhibit.

Ned meets up with the church council to suggest promotion of creationism. The next day, he and Reverend Lovejoy blackmailed Principal Skinner into introducing creationism in the school. Lisa is perturbed by this, and at a town meeting asks everyone to make a choice between creationism and Darwinism, as there is only one truth. The townspeople vote for creationism, much to her chagrin, and the act of teaching or learning Darwinism and evolution is made illegal. Lisa therefore decides to start holding secret classes for people interested in evolution. However, just as the first lesson is about to begin, she is arrested by Chief Wiggum. She asks why she is being arrested when there are far worse crimes out there, and embarrassed he tells her they only have enough manpower to enforce the last three laws passed, even stating that this is the worst law system there is. Lisa is brought to trial, which is dubbed Lisa Simpson v. God. Representing her is Clarice Drummond, an ACLU lawyer, while on Ned's side is Wallace Brady, an overweight, southern lawyer. The trial does not go smoothly for Lisa, as Professor Frink gives ambiguous answers regarding God's existence, while a creationist says that evolution cannot be real, as there is no proof of a "missing link" (depicted in a picture as a savage hominid, holding a rock over his head).

With Lisa now facing a long jail sentence, her mother decides to help her out. Marge begins reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which is incorrectly called The Origin of Species, and becomes addicted to it. When the trial resumes, Marge tells Lisa that she now knows a way that she can help her. While Ned is being cross-examined by Drummond, she gives Homer a beer. Homer, ecstatic at getting the beer, tries to open it unsuccessfully. The more he tries, the more primitive he gets, hooting and banging the beer on the bench, disrupting the trial. Ned loses his temper and tells Homer to stop behaving like a monkey. Drummond then asks Ned to compare the picture of the "missing link" and Homer shaking the beer over his head, and asks if he truly believes Homer cannot be related to apes. Ned cannot and concedes victory to Lisa. After the trial, Lisa goes up to Ned and tells him that while she fully respects his religious beliefs, she just does not think it is proper for the church to dominate the school in the same way that he and Reverend Lovejoy do not want scientists taking over the church. Ned finally agrees with this, so he offers to take Lisa and his sons out for ice cream.

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You can read the whole thing at Wikipedia - The Monkey Suit.

This video is strong evidence for the idea that Americans are extremely stupid. Evolution by natural selection makes American morons cry.

This is about Idiot Arkansas. The stupid, it burns.

Idiot America has a state called Idiot Arkansas. Their State House passed a law that would allow the teaching of magical creationism (god-did-it) in public school science classrooms.

Fortunately, their State Senate threw out this moronic bullshit. But the stupidity was still there. One of the fucking retards said, "The bill is unnecessary because a teacher friend of his already taught Creationism alongside evolution."

Why are Americans so fucking stupid? I will never understand how there could be so much stupidity in one country. Even the teachers are retarded.

Job interview for biology teacher in Idiot America:

Do you know anything about biology?

No, I don't know anything about biology.

You're hired.

I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.

Arkansas House Passes Bills To Let Teachers Teach Creationism.

Robyn Pennacchia

April 10, 2021

This week, the Arkansas House passed two bills seemingly designed to make it incredibly unpleasant for kids who are not Bible-banging bigots to attend school. Why? Well, because they're assholes. There's not really a better or deeper answer than that.

On Wednesday, the House passed a bill allowing teachers to teach creationism. Yes, we're actually doing this again. Apparently now that Trump is gone, conservatives feel much more free to go back to their more theocratic tendencies. Despite the claims of many "prophets" that Trump was practically the Second Coming, the actual practice of supporting a crass, twice-divorced casino owner who was obviously only feigning to be super into Jesus seemed to make many Christians chill on the whole "the earth is 6,000 years old!" thing. Quite frankly, I think they didn't want to run the risk of anyone actually asking him about it.

Via KATV:

Rep. Mary Bentley sponsored HB 1704 which would allow for teachers to use the creation theory in science along with the evolution theory.

"I've had teachers in my district ask me if we could please make it available for them to be able to discuss some scientists that truly believe that the theory of creation should be taught in school," Bentley said, adding that it could be taught along with the theory of evolution, not in place of it.

Bentley said this bill would allow teachers the option to use creation theory but it does not force them.

Now, this is obviously illegal. The Supreme Court determined in 1987's Edwards v. Aguillard that teaching creationism in science classes is unconstitutional because creationism is a Christian religious belief and a public school cannot teach a Christian religious belief as science, no matter how desperately some Christians may want to believe that their belief is scientific.

Bentley, however, appears to be betting on the fact that a very conservative Supreme Court may change that.

It is understandable — or at least it has been made clear — that many Christians don't just think of their beliefs as things that they believe because it is part of their religion, but because they are factually true. So it probably does really hurt their feelings to be told "That's not science and you can't teach it as science." But the fact is, it is their religion. Teachers who wish to teach creationism are free, in their off-hours, to teach Sunday School or to stand outside on a sidewalk, handing out Jack Chick flyers and evangelizing to their heart's content — but they are not free to try to convert their students, because that is illegal. It is also not what they are being paid, by taxpayers, to do.

Not everyone gets to do what they love for a living. I do, but I'm lucky. If these people want to teach creationism for a living, then they will have to find another job and someone who is willing to pay them to do that. It's not that hard! Or it shouldn't be. Unless what they really want is an opportunity to preach to non-Christian children in a captive setting. Then they might have a problem.

I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.

Arkansas Times

Creationism can be taught as science in Arkansas classrooms, lawmakers say

By Austin Bailey

April 7, 2021

A bill to allow Christian beliefs to be taught in Arkansas classrooms easily passed the state House Wednesday. House Bill 1701 now heads to the Senate side for a vote.

The bill will allow kindergarten through 12th grade teachers to teach students about the Christian theory of creationism, which claims that a divine being conjured the universe and all things in it in six days. The bill specifies that creationism can be taught not only in religion and philosophy classes, but “as a theory of how the Earth came to exist.”

As with so many pieces of legislation churning out of the Arkansas Capitol this session, if HB 1701 passes, a quick court challenge on this blatant mixing of church and state is all but inevitable. The United States Supreme Court already considered this issue in 1987 and ruled in no uncertain terms that teaching creationism in public school classrooms is unconstitutional. But blatant unconstitutionality hasn’t dissuaded Arkansas lawmakers so far this session. One Senate bill that passed recently, for example, declared all federal gun laws null and void within our state’s borders, in clear opposition to the Supremacy Clause that says federal laws take precedence over state laws.

Rep. Mary Bentley (R-Perryville), sponsor of House Bill 1701 “TO ALLOW CREATIONISM AS A THEORY OF HOW THE EARTH CAME TO EXIST TO BE TAUGHT IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE TWELVE CLASSES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND OPEN–ENROLLMENT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS,” said she put forth the bill at the request of science teachers in her district.

“There are phenomena in our nature that evolution cannot explain,” Bentley said. She emphasized that science teachers may teach creationism under this bill, but they don’t have to.

“Why would we do this when the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that it’s illegal to do that,” asked Rep. Deborah Ferguson (D-West Memphis). Ferguson pointed out that Arkansas has been down this road before in 1982 when state lawmakers tried to force creationism into the state’s curriculum. U.S. District Judge William Overton put a stop to it with his ruling in McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education.

Bentley told Ferguson she believes the Supreme Court might rule differently this time.

The creationism in schools bill passed the House with a vote split strictly along party lines, with 72 yeahs from Republicans, 21 nays from Democrats, and seven not voting.

Christian creationists are stupid fucking assholes. This is about Idiot Arkansas where the science teachers prefer magical creationism instead of science. I'm not making this up. Idiot America has thousands of teachers who need to be fired for their extreme stupidity. Their students learn how to hate science because they think it's boring.

House Bill 1701 by Rep. Mary Bentley, R-Perryville, would allow K-12 public school teachers to teach the biblical story of creationism as a theory for how the Earth came to exist. Teachers would not be required to teach creationism, which the Book of Genesis describes as happening in six days, culminating in the creation of humanity. It passed on a voice vote.

Bentley said many teachers had requested such legislation. She said the Founding Fathers mentioned the Creator in the Declaration of Independence and allowed creation to be taught in classrooms. She said the odds of the Earth arising naturally are so remote that students are being done a disservice by not learning the creation story.

https://talkbusiness.net/2021/04/house-committee-advances-creationism-transgender-and-religious-freedom-bills/

The stupid, it burns.

Canada has a problem. Some of the Canadians are almost a stupid as the Americans. Christian assholes want to stick god-did-it in science classrooms.

Support rising for adding creationism to public school curriculum

Mario Canseco / Glacier News

MARCH 29, 2021

More than a decade has passed since the issue of creationism played a prominent role in a political campaign in Canada.

A few weeks before Ontarians cast their ballots in the 2007 provincial election, then-Progressive Conservative leader John Tory suggested that creationism could be taught alongside evolution in the province’s schools. The controversy created by his comments lasted a few days, and Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario Liberal Party ended up winning the contest.

Canadians have rarely been exposed to politicians discussing their religious beliefs in a public setting. The situation is different in the United States, where courting large groups of churchgoers can be essential to secure victory in congressional races. Simply put, there is little benefit for Canadian politicians who participate in photo-ops outside temples and churches, and plenty of risk in alienating those who hold different beliefs or none at all.

It might come as a surprise to see that, in a country that appears to appreciate the separation between church and state, there is some momentum to the idea of allowing Canadian students to learn about creationism inside their classrooms.

I have had the opportunity to ask questions about this topic since 2007. When Research Co. and Glacier Media revisited the issue again this year, more than half of Canadians (57%) believe that human beings evolved from less advanced forms of life over millions of years, while 26% think that God created human beings in their present form within the last 10,000 years.

While 57% may seem to be an impressive statistic, it is the lowest level of belief in evolution observed in six different surveys over 14 years, and down nine points from the previous high recorded in 2018. In contrast, this is the first time that more than one in four Canadians have described themselves as creationists, a five-point increase in three years.

We find roughly the same proportion of creationists among Canadians aged 18 to 34 (29%) and Canadians aged 55 and over (28%). When it comes to Canadians aged 35 to 54, the proportion falls to 21%.

Regionally, Alberta leads the way with more than a third of residents (36%) believing that God created human beings. The numbers are lower in Atlantic Canada (33%), Manitoba and Saskatchewan (26%), Quebec (25%), Ontario (24%) and British Columbia (22%).

The uptick in the proportion of Canadians who appear to eschew evolution is accompanied by an increase on another metric. Across the country, 44% of Canadians think creationism – the belief that the universe and life originated from specific acts of divine creation – should be part of the school curriculum in their province, while 34% disagree and 23% are undecided.

While the proponents of creationism at schools do not yet represent a majority of Canadians, their ranks have grown by six points since 2018. Conversely, the proportion of respondents who openly oppose this idea have dropped by 12 points.

We could expect to see some drastic political differences on this issue, but the fluctuations are not particularly meaningful. We found that 49% of Canadians who voted for the Conservative Party of Canada in 2019 are in favour of teaching creationism in schools. The numbers are slightly lower among those who cast ballots for the Liberal Party of Canada (47%) and the New Democratic Party (NDP) (44%) in the last federal election.

The big disparities are at the regional level, with 53% of Albertans and 50% of Quebecers saying they would consent to schools teaching creationism. Fewer respondents concur with this point of view in Ontario (43%), Saskatchewan and Manitoba (41%), Atlantic Canada (35%) and British Columbia (also 35%).

Most Canadians now are focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic and the expected economic recovery. There also has not been a heated debate related to religion and education over the past few years. Still, the changes we are seeing nationally on these two questions since 2018 are noteworthy. We will have to wait longer to see if the trend continues, and whether politicians – particularly at the provincial level – decide to do something. •

Mario Canseco is president of Research Co.

Results are based on an online study conducted from March 17 to March 19 among 1,000 adults in Canada. The margin of error, which measures sample variability, is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

The 2 links are about Idiot America's creationist assholes.

https://theconversation.com/why-creationism-bears-all-the-hallmarks-of-a-conspiracy-theory-153831

https://theconversation.com/how-to-slam-dunk-creationists-when-it-comes-to-the-theory-of-evolution-81581

Somebody else answered a question about the millions of morons in Idiot America.

Somebody said there are Christians in the United States who want to throw out evolution. Is this true? If it is true, what's their problem?

Yes, it's true. A lot of private and charter schools won't teach it. Public schools are mandated to stick to state-prescribed curricula, but even their religious parent's organizations are constantly trying to get removed evolution removed (and replaced by creationism). Biology textbooks in Cobb County, GA had a sticker that basically said that evolution is only a theory and should be taken with a grain of salt.

The problem, to put it bluntly, is that they're idiots. These people don't understand how evolution works, but they don't have any desire to learn.

Of course, it's not just evolution. It's science in general. There is a strong anti-science sentiment because they are scientifically illiterate. And anti-science sentiments foster further scientific illiteracy in a vicious cycle of self-perpetuating ignorance.

-- James

Gallup polls show 40% of Americans think that humans were created “pretty much in their present form” within the past 10,000 years. I'm not making this up. 40% of Americans are fucking insane and extremely stupid. Most of the rest of Americans are equally retarded because they think their magic-god-fairy is a mechanism of evolution. I'm not making that up. Our Christian fucktards think evolution wouldn't work without their fairy. This article is from the Washington Post, December 9, 2020.

The Washington Post

The persistence of creationism shows losing could make Trumpism more extreme

After the Scopes trial, creationists built their own institutions and became more radical.

By Adam Laats

Adam Laats is professor of education at Binghamton University (SUNY) and author of "Fundamentalist U." and "The Other School Reformers."

December 9, 2020

We have seen this before. A national populist leader, reviled by elites but beloved by his base, is humiliated on the world stage. His embrace of bad science earns him the jeers of scientists but the trust and faith of millions of Americans.

The year was 1925, and the leader was not President Trump but William Jennings Bryan, the former presidential candidate and secretary of state. The lessons of that episode carry a sober warning for today. Loss and humiliation do not make bad ideas go away. Rather, they can take on wilder and more outrageous forms that attract more and more adherents.

Bryan’s embarrassment, which came at the legendary Scopes trial, provides the most famous example. Without an invitation, Bryan volunteered to help prosecute Tennessee teacher John Scopes, who stood accused of breaking a new Tennessee law against the teaching of human evolution. Bryan’s participation helped elevate the modest test case into a worldwide spectacle. At the time, Bryan was one of America’s leading culture warriors, attacking the teaching of evolutionary theory in public schools as anti-Christian and anti-American.

At the Scopes trial, though, he was forced to admit that he did not understand America’s growing consensus about science and religion. Nor did he offer a satisfying explanation for his opposition to the teaching of evolutionary theory.

At least, that’s how his detractors saw it. As one New York Times reporter related, when Bryan took a seat in the witness stand to defend his anti-evolution ideas, “There was no pity for his admissions of ignorance … his floundering confessions that he knew practically nothing of geology, biology, philology, little of comparative religion, and little even of ancient history.”

In the eyes of many elites at the time, then, Bryan’s performance seemed to herald the end of the anti-evolution crusade. One popular 1930s history explained that “civilized opinion everywhere” was revolted by Bryan’s anti-evolution ignorance. Into the 1950s, leading historians repeated the mistake, with one declaring that the trial sent Bryan’s movement into “a period of rapid decline.”

But predictions of creationism’s demise were wrong. Anti-evolution sentiment did not die with Bryan’s swan-song testimony. In fact, it grew more radical.

How did elites get it so wrong?

They didn’t understand that they did not think like Bryan’s supporters. While Bryan's performance cost him credibility with elites, their derision only made him more of a hero with his followers.

Hearing the laughter and reading the cruel words, Bryan’s fans did not abandon their creationist beliefs. Instead, they dug in. They recognized that their ideas about science and religion were no longer respected in mainstream institutions and began building an alternative set of institutions to propagate their beliefs.

After Bryan’s death, his admirers founded a university in his name. Bryan University (now Bryan College) opened in 1930 dedicated to teaching the ideas that Bryan defended on the witness stand. All faculty members had to agree that humanity was created by God as described in Genesis.

Bryan College was far from alone in teaching such ideas. A network of institutions with roots in the Scopes-trial era arose to teach even more radical notions about the unevolved origins of humanity than those adopted by Bryan himself.

Bryan was very clear: The universe could not have been created in only six literal days nor could it be as young as 10,000 years old. In 1923, he lambasted such ludicrous ideas as a mere “straw man” that had been foisted upon him by sneering skeptics. Real Christians, Bryan wrote, could never believe such anti-scientific nonsense. It was only their enemies who accused them of such things, just as they “accuse orthodox Christians of denying the roundness of the earth, and the law of gravitation.”

After Bryan’s humiliation, however, institutions such as Bryan College no longer competed for mainstream respectability, as he had. Instead, they doubled down, embracing radical notions about the age of the Earth and the roots of our species.

It did not happen right away. In Bryan’s era, scientists still had not figured out some of the key elements of evolutionary theory. By the 1950s, though, those scientific debates had ended. Institutions such as Bryan College faced a crucial challenge: accept the established consensus about evolutionary theory or embrace the scientifically impossible idea that the universe was truly created in six literal days and not more than 10,000 years ago. No longer tempted to fight for respect from mainstream scientists, some of them chose the radical path.

The path to radicalized creationism was different at different institutions. At Bryan College itself, the creationist crisis was put off until recently. In 2014, Bryan College tightened its creationist requirements for faculty. Until then, professors could disagree about the details of creationism, as long as they agreed — like Bryan himself — that God had created humanity somehow, maybe using long evolutionary processes, maybe not. Since 2014, however, faculty members must affirm specifically that no evolution of humanity occurred, that Adam and Eve were real “historical persons” and the parents of the entire species. In the words of President Douglas Mann, Bryan College’s goal is for “the study of every discipline” to enable students “to see God’s creative hand and give Him glory through its pursuit.”

While Bryan saw himself as making the case against evolution using the latest evidence from leading scientists, institutions such as Bryan College have little interest in evidence offered by scientists when it conflicts with biblical teachings. And they remain potent forces in American society: As Gallup polls show, even today, about four in 10 adults think that humans were created “pretty much in their present form” within the past 10,000 years, a number that has remained fairly steady since at least the 1980s.

The influence of these institutions reaches far beyond the science classroom. Among Trump’s most stalwart supporters are White evangelical Protestants, the group that built this network of creationist colleges. Certainly not all, but many conservative evangelical institutions have taught students for generations to be suspicious of mainstream science, to look askance at “fake news.” In many ways, the universities that took pride in their radical creationism were the same ones that shared Trump’s “Make America Great Again” dream.

The history of Bryan’s humiliation and its radical creationist aftermath offer some insights into our current precarious situation.

Once again we have a national leader humiliated because of his rejection of facts and science but still widely adored by a fiercely loyal base. In many ways, the two men could not be more different. Even Bryan’s fiercest opponents conceded his fundamental decency and stout sense of ethics.

In one way, however, Trump is reviving Bryan’s memory. The president’s shameful science denialism, like Bryan’s, has only made him more popular. Trump infamously touted ludicrous ideas about science and medicine, including recommendations to inject disinfectant as a cure for the novel coronavirus. Yet among Republican voters, Trump’s unbelievable and outrageous statements did not disqualify him. Entirely to the contrary — he secured the second-most votes in history as millions of Americans who feel scorned by elites flocked to the anti-expertise president.

As in the wake of the Scopes trial, there is discussion of Trump establishing a network of institutions to carry on his ideas — most especially some sort of broadcasting vehicle.

Even worse, the aftermath of the election has paralleled the late 1920s. Unrestrained from the traditions of mainstream politics and culture, the ideas of Trump’s hardcore followers have become even more bizarre, even more dangerous.

As the history of creationism shows, there is a vast difference between kicking an idea out of mainstream respectability and kicking it out of American culture. The lesson from Bryan’s long cultural shadow is to watch carefully the networks that spring up to carry on Trump’s ideas. It is easy to conclude that outsider networks have disappeared once they no longer have a prominent voice in the Oval Office, but that is precisely the time for mainstream society to pay closer attention.

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This is what I wrote at the Wall Street Journal for a stupid fucking asshole who wants to throw out science because evolution makes this moron for Jeebus cry. This is more "Idiot America" stuff. Americans are just plain fucking stupid.

The asshole for Jeebus wrote this bullshit:

David Berlinski, Stephen Meyer, And David Gelernter have recent books on the mathematics and the impossibility of Darwin's creation theories.

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This is what I wrote for the know-nothing god-soaked retard:

Stephen Meyer is a member of the Christian Creationist Discovery Institute which has never discovered anything. It's an anti-science organization. Biologists call it "Crackpot Central". Evolution makes them cry. They have a long history of dishonesty. Also, they are trying to suppress the teaching of evolution in public schools.

You will never learn anything about science from crackpots.

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This is what I wanted to write for the moron:

Grow up and educate yourself you fucking retard.

I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.

People like this fucking moron are a big problem in Idiot America. They're stupid fucking assholes who want to suppress the teaching of evolution because science makes them cry. As usual, this Christian asshole doesn't know what a scientific theory is.

FUCKTARD:

Should evolution not be taught in our schools unless intelligent design is also an option for children to learn and decide on their own?

Both Intelligent design and Evolution are THEORY'S. Why is one allowed to be taught and the other not? This should change or drop evolution classes.

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WHAT I WROTE FOR THE STUPID FUCKING ASSHOLE:

Intelligent design are code words that mean "The Magic Man did it". It's a religious fantasy, it's anti-science, it's dishonest, and you know it.

In science classrooms, teachers teach science. They don't waste class time teaching the Magic Man did it.

I suggest you should stop being a liar about what you want. The problem with being a liar is everyone knows you are very dishonest.

By the way, evolution is supported by thousands of evidences that you know nothing about because you're too lazy to educate yourself.

I answered a question and someone else answered the same question about why are Americans so fucking stupid.

"Why is the US so religious? As someone from Europe, it always struck me how religiously fervent Americans seem to be."

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Religion is a big problem here in Idiot America. For example, we have a never-ending Christian war against teaching evolution. Also, most of our biology teachers don't know anything about biology.

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"Have you seen how poor the American education system is? Most of them would struggle to find Mexico on a map."

Jerry Coyne wrote this 9 years ago but nothing has changed since then. Idiot America is still infested with stupid fucking assholes for Jeebus. Evolution makes these professional morons cry.

Review of: Jonathan Wells - Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth?
in Nature, 410, (2001) 745-46

Creationism by Stealth
By Jerry Coyne

In 1976, Jonathan Wells a student in Moon's seminary, answered his leader's call. Wells writes, "Father's [Moon's] words, my studies, and my prayers convinced me that I should devote my life to destroying Darwinism, just as many of my fellow Unificationists had already devoted their lives to destroying Marxism. When Father chose me to enter a PhD program in 1978, I welcomed the opportunity to prepare myself for battle." The University of California supplied Wells with his weapon, a PhD in biology and, with Icons of Evolution, Wells has fired the latest salvo in the eternal religious assault on Charles Darwin.

This personal history, taken from the Unification Church website (http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks/Wells/0-Toc.htm), is conspicuously missing from the author's biography in Icons. The book, aimed at the non-specialist, masquerades as a scientific critique of classic examples of evolution, but is actually a polemic intelligently designed to please Father Moon. Icons is a work of stealth creationism, and strives to debunk darwinism using the familiar rhetoric of biblical creationists, including scientific quotations out of context, incomplete summaries of research, and muddled arguments. But because Wells has scientific credentials, studiously avoids mentioning religion or God (who appears only under the alias "intelligent design"), and presents his book as an objective critique (complete with 70 pages of references and research notes), it is easy for the non-scientist to be taken in. Icons has been embraced with glee by anti-evolutionists, who want it included in the American school science curriculum.

Wells's book rests entirely on a flawed syllogism: hence, textbooks illustrate evolution with examples; these examples are sometimes presented in incorrect or misleading ways; therefore evolution is a fiction. The second premise is not generally true, and even if it were, the conclusion would not follow. To compound the absurdity, Wells concludes that a cabal of evil scientists, "the Darwinian establishment", uses fraud and distortion to buttress the crumbling edifice of evolution. Wells' final chapter urges his readers to lobby the US government to eliminate research funding for evolutionary biology.

To see his argument at work, let's look at development, which Wells has referred to elsewhere as "the Achilles' heel of Darwinism". As Darwin first realized, some aspects of vertebrate development — especially transitory features — provide strong evidence for common ancestry and evolution. Embryos of different vertebrates tend to resemble one another in early stages, but diverge as development proceeds, with more closely related species diverging less widely. This conclusion has been supported by 150 years of research.

Wells tries to refute this mountain of work by noting that, in 1891, the German biologist Ernst Haeckel published illustrations of vertebrate embryos that exaggerated their similarity, and that some biology textbooks still display these doctored drawings. This embroidery, however, was first reported by the British zoologist Adam Sedgwick in 1894, and has repeatedly been used to show the failings not of darwinism, but of Haeckel (see, for example, Nature 410, 144; 2001).

Despite Wells's arguments, one does not need Haeckel's wishful pencil to draw copious evidence for evolution from developmental biology. Human embryos, for example, have pharyngeal pouches, a tail and six aortic arches — all features found in embryonic fish. But our pouches become glands and ducts instead of gill slits, our tail disappears, and our aortic arches (which remain six in some fish) either disappear or are transformed into carotid, systemic and pulmonary arteries. In our first trimester we develop the lanugo, a coat of hair that is shed before birth.

Are these patterns mere whims of the Intelligent Designer, or evidence of our common ancestry with fish and furry primates? Embryos of whales and some snakes develop hindlimb buds that regress before birth; embryos of baleen whales possess teeth that later disappear; and horse embryos have three well-developed toes, with the outer two shrinking to leave the single-digit hoof. Such examples abound, but you won't find them in Icons.

Wells also notes that the earliest vertebrate embryos (mere balls of cells) are often less similar to one another than they are at subsequent stages when they possess more complex features. According to Wells, this counts as evidence against biological evolution, which supposedly predicts that the similarities among groups will be strongest at the very first stages of development. But darwinism makes no such prediction. Darwin himself noted that embryos must adapt to the conditions of their existence, and the earliest stages of vertebrate embryos show adaptation to widely varying amounts of yolk in their eggs. Wells repeatedly fails to grasp the evidential value of phenomena that can be understood only as the result of a historical process, even if the results were not predictable. Perhaps an observer in the early Cenozoic could not have predicted that a lineage of ungulates would lose their hindlimbs as they became aquatic, but the development of the hindlimb in embryonic whales can be understood only as a result of descent with modification from a four-legged ancestor.

When discussing other 'icons', Wells uses the same tactic of selective omission to distort a body of literature he pretends to review. Nowhere is this more visible than in his chapter on human evolution. Faced with a series of hominid fossils showing transitions from ape-like to modern human traits over 4 million years, Wells can only mumble about the Piltdown Man hoax, and imply that the vigorous scientific debate about the course of human evolution proves that humans did not evolve.

It is telling that, although Wells repeatedly attacks evolution, he gives no hint of his own ideas about the origin and development of life. There is good reason for this. As one learns from his website sermon, Evolution by Design, Wells believes that "the human species was planned before life began, and that the history of life is the record of how this plan was implemented". To Wells, the fossil record does not represent a continuum of ancestry, but a succession of creations by the Intelligent Designer, with each species carefully devised to nurture the next product of creation up to the final goal, humans.

But this argument is blasphemous, for its logical consequence is that the pinnacle of evolution is not Homo sapiens but our ectoparasite Pediculus humanus, the body louse. It also turns the Great Designer into a Great Deceiver, who, in the manner of Satan, put fossils in the rocks — and tails on embryos — to mislead biologists of the future.

Finally, Wells's main theme about the collusion of evolutionary biologists is simply wrong. Authors of some biology texts may occasionally be sloppy, or slow to incorporate new research, but they are not duplicitous. And, far from representing a conspiracy, it is invariably evolutionists (including myself) who have noted problems with some classic icons of evolution. Wells has it backwards. It is creationists like him who are conspiring to purge evolution from American education. They hide their own differences about issues such as the fossil record and the age of the Earth, they pretend to be disinterested seekers after truth, they fail to do their own scientific research, and, like Wells, they avoid at all costs revealing their own theories about the history of life. Icons is exactly as even-handed and intellectually honest as one would expect from someone whose "prayers convinced me that I should devote my life to destroying Darwinism".

An article about the anti-science Christian creationist assholes who infest Idiot America. It's too much to read but here is the link.

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