People v. State

One “bobxxxx” attempted to leave 6 comments on my previous post about Darwin’s theory of evolution and the Establishment Clause. The first 5 were written in the space of 18 minutes. Here’s the first:

The reason every single biology teacher refused to teach anything about intelligent design (and this was before the trial that the creationists lost) is because intelligent design is bullshit.

Evolution is a basic scientific fact. There is no debate about it. Evolution is how the world works. The Magical Designer, also known as the Magic God Fairy, didn’t have anything to do with the development of life.            

For people who are not willfully ignorant, I highly recommend this book which was published in 2009 – “Why Evolution is True” by Jerry Coyne.

The second (quoting and reacting to a passage I quoted from Phillip E. Johnson’s Darwin on Trial):

“‘Evolution’ can mean anything from the uncontroversial statement that bacteria ‘evolve’ resistance to antibiotics to the grand metaphysical claim that the universe and mankind ‘evolved’ entirely by purposeless, mechanical forces.”

This is bullshit. Evolutionary biology explains the development of new species. Everyone knows that. It has nothing to do with the universe, and everyone who isn’t an uneducated retard knows that.

The third (quoting and reacting to something commenter Chris wrote):

“There’s nothing in modern biology that necessarily denies god as a creator or god as the source for ‘random’ mutation.”

This is bullshit. Every branch of science does not invoke a god for anything. And I can’t imagine any idea more stupid than a god being a source for DNA copying errors, which is what mutations are.

The fourth (quoting and reacting to something I wrote):

“While I am for good reasons based on personal experience not prone to accept on faith what is represented to me as the scientific “consensus” on evolution, and would not be surprised to find that the grander and more notorious claims of evolution (e.g., that man evolved from apes) are not as supported by the scientific evidence as people have been led to believe …”

Nobody has to accept any scientific concept, especially not evolution, on “faith”.

You see, evolution has something called EVIDENCE. Why don’t you study it?

Man evolved from apes is a notorious claim? Wow, are you ever hopelessly uneducated and god-soaked.

First of all, people are apes. Got that? You’re an ape, I’m an ape, and even your worthless dead preacher man Jeebus was an ape. The human race is one of the modern ape species, and we are distant cousins of the other modern ape species, including chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas.

These are not notorious claims. These are basic scientific facts, backed up by extremely powerful and extremely massive evidence from molecular biology and many other branches of science.

Just read the book I recommended so next time you don’t sound like an uneducated hick.

And finally the fifth (quoting and reacting to a passage from a dissent by Scalia I’d quoted):

From his dissent in Aquillard v. Edwards, 482 U.S. 578 (1987):

“The people of Louisiana, including those who are Christian fundamentalists, are quite entitled, as a secular matter, to have whatever scientific evidence there may be against evolution presented in their schools, just as Mr. Scopes was entitled to present whatever scientific evidence there was for it.”

Wow. The stupidity burns. There are exactly zero pieces of evidence that are against evolution. Evolution has been tested for 150 years by tens of thousands of scientists and it has passed every single test.

There is no reason to pass a law to dumb down the teaching of evolutionary biology to accommodate Christian morons. Also, no respectable biology teacher would ever agree to lie to students about science, and pretending there might be something wrong with evolution would be lying.

Obviously, I chose to publish on the relevant thread none of what spewed from “bobxxxx”‘s feverish brain and overheated keyboard. “Bobxxxx” seemed surprised that his critical comments never saw the light of day while other critical comments did, and after a day had passed submitted for my approval yet another comment:

Looks like here is another cowardly Christian moron who loves censorship. What are you assholes so afraid of?

That’s rich — an anonymous troll on the internet calling people names that would get him roundly bounced from any conversation in the real world making accusations of cowardice and censorship.

Comments, even critical comments, even less than friendly comments that imply that the writer of this blog isn’t the sharpest nail in the box, are most welcome on this blog and appreciated. Trolls are not. For those wondering what makes a commenter a troll and why it’s best to ignore them, I recommend Scott Greenfield’s timely and recent post on The Troll Tax.

I’ve given “bobxxxx”‘s comments their own special post here not because I was stung by his accusation of cowardice and censorship or to demonstrate that I’m not “afraid” of his ridiculous comments, but for two reasons: First, to give to potential trolls an example of the kinds of comments that will be preemptively deleted without an airing, for the purpose of setting forth a rudimentary “commenting policy.” Second, to demonstrate (in case anyone doubted it) that there are rabid dogmatic nutjobs on the athiest side of the “evolution debate” too.

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