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May 10, 2005

They Really Are Quite Stupid Ignorant, You Know

To wit, Brian McNicoll, writing about the Kansas evolution non-debates at TownHall.com:

But so far, the scientific community of Kansas and surrounding areas has refused to participate. This proceeding, they say, is beneath them because all issues regarding the origin of life are settled.

Do they say that? Uh, no, they don't.

McNicoll's just provided an out and out lie. An intentional falsehood. Nothing is beneath these creationist yahoos, despite Jesus' admonitions to be honest and such. Lying for the Lord is a-ok!

Put this to a dedicated Darwinist: How did two apes, two animals driven by nothing but instinct to survive, mate and produce a thinking, discerning, right-from-wrong-knowing human being? Two of them, actually – one boy and one girl, in more or less the same neighborhood, travel not being as convenient then as it is now.

You’ll hear all manner of stammering and yammering about how it’s not that simple, how saying we have a common ancestor doesn’t exactly mean that, at some point, two animals mated and produced a free-thinking person. But the fact is, it is exactly that simple. Show me how this could’ve occurred, shoe me the “missing link,” and I’m foursquare on your side.

Brian, get even the slightest understanding of evolution, and we'll talk.

Until then, we'll marvel at the irony of how your name is so close to the word "Brain," when you clearly lack one.

Update: I e-mailed Mr. McNicoll last night with my concerns, in my usual snarky manner, and - unlike his TownHall.com cohort Ann Coulter - he responded this morning. We now have a bit of a civil e-discourse going on, and he has yet to see the error of his ways, but I have hope (because I'm a naive idealist under this cynical exterior).