Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Darwinists chatter excitedly over Rand Paul's refusal to answer creationism question

The Darwinian fundamentalists suddenly ceased grooming each other and started chattering excitedly about a video of Rand Paul addressing Kentucky home schoolers and declining to say where he stood on the issue of creationism.

While the creationist home school crowd continued to listen politely and attentively to Rand Paul after his remarks, the Darwinists started wildly throwing coconuts at the candidate for U. S. Senate.

The creationist crowd took Paul's refusal to answer their question with measured aplomb, and sat there politely while he finished his talk. But social dynamics in Darwinist communities often include threatening displays by their more dominant members when there is any deviation from accepted group opinions. In fact, despite the common belief that they are intellectually tolerant, this characteristic is hard to find among them, and is often punished when found among their members.

Experts continue to believe that Darwinists are capable of rational thought and other traits characteristic of humans, but research into the question continues.

15 comments:

Art said...

Hmm...

Paul, like some others around here, cannot tell the difference between 6000 and 4,500,000,000.

It's easy to see, from his other statements, how this math illiteracy will play out when it comes to the Federal budget. When it comes to food stamps, Paul would consider the deficit to be on the order of trillions. But when it comes to Medicare payments to doctors, then Paul would consider the deficit to be closer to a thousand.

So, just how is Paul different from any other politician? How many of our tax dollars will he funnel into his own pockets if he is elected? Will it be 10^3 or 10^9? (I know,I know, what a silly question.)

KyCobb said...

Martin,

I know you don't know whether or not humans evolved or were created, despite your clear contempt for evolutionary science. Do you also don't know whether the earth is closer to 6,000 years old, or more like 4.5 billion years old?

Martin Cothran said...

KyCobb,

I have no contempt for evolutionary science; I have contempt only for Darwinian dogma.

And I have made my views on creation and evolution clear on several occasions (http://vereloqui.blogspot.com/2007/06/evolutionist-response-to-new-gallup.html):

I believe that humans are evolving into creationists. The establishment and record attendance at the creation museum is a clear indication of this.

People who believe in the survival of the fittest, as it turns out, are less fit for survival. Those who believe in natural selection are losing out in Nature's selection process.

Darwinists face ultimate extinction. My only question is how you all are going to handle this.

KyCobb said...

Martin,

The question Paul dodged, and which you appear to be dodging, is not whether evolution is true, but the age of the earth. Two completely different scientific questions. Do you know whether the earth is closer to 6,000 years old, or is it more like 4.5 billion years old, or are you just going to pass on that like Paul did?

BTW, people have been predicting the demise of evolutionary theory for a long time, so we'll see if your prediction is any more accurate than previous ones:

http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/demise.html

Art said...

"I believe that humans are evolving into creationists. The establishment and record attendance at the creation museum is a clear indication of this.

Funny thing - a majority of those children being dragged to the theme park are going to end up leaving the church and turning into secular Darwninists.

Martin sure does have a strange idea of the concept of extinction.

And he has a curious aversion to simple math, to boot. Quite as does Paul.

Anonymous said...

http://www.newsok.com/paul-courts-christian-home-schoolers-in-kentucky/article/feed/168431

Martin, were you at the meeting? Why do you deny creationism? Don't you remember Peter denying Jesus three times?

Anonymous said...

Nice use of aplomb. Too bad you are so wrong.

Martin Cothran said...

Anonymous,

Where did I deny creationism?

Rob said...

Marty, why do you think creationism is real despite the overwhelming evidence for evolution?

I've never seen a group of people so proud of their ignorance.

Human Ape said...

Why do you call biologists "Darwinists"?

Biologists are called "biologists".

Martin Cothran said...

Human Ape,

Because I was referring to Darwinists, not biologists.

Human Ape said...

The Darwinian fundamentalists suddenly ceased grooming each other and started chattering excitedly about a video of Rand Paul addressing Kentucky home schoolers and declining to say where he stood on the issue of creationism.

Why do you call normal people "Darwinian fundamentatlists"?

Normal people are called "normal people".

I know nothing about Rand Paul nor do I care about this person. However, from reading the above sentence, Rand Paul is either a creationist, or he wants to pretend he's a creationist to get votes from uneducated Christians. In any case, a person who avoids questions is not somebody I would vote for. I also wouldn't vote for a politician who was scientifically illiterate, and it's impossible to be more scientifically illiterate than an evolution denier.

By the way, why are you afraid of evolutionary biology? Is it because reality frightens you? Are you worried about the religious implications?

You should try to not be afraid of science. The history of life is the most interesting story in the world, and new discoveries are making this story more and more interesting.

As the biologist PZ Myers recently said "The religious imagination is paltry and petty compared to the awesome reality."

http://darwin-killed-god.blogspot.com/

Human Ape said...

In one of your comments you talked about "the creation museum".

This concerns me very much because if you take that museum seriously, and I assume you're talking about Ken Ham's fantasy land in Kentucky, then it's fair to say you don't know what science is.

In the real world, scientists don't invoke magic god fairies to solve scientific problems. And they don't make a living spreading lies and mentally abusing children like your friend Ken Ham.

http://darwin-killed-god.blogspot.com/

Martin Cothran said...

Human Ape,

1. I did not call normal people "Darwinian fundamentalists"; I called Darwinian fundamentalists "Darwinian fundamentalists."

2. I am not "afraid of evolutionary biology." Are you afraid of religion?

And where did I say I agreed with Ken Ham?

Do you take the same amount of care in your scientific investigations of the evolution question as you do in interpreting other people's remarks?

Lee said...

> Funny thing - a majority of those children being dragged to the theme park are going to end up leaving the church and turning into secular Darwninists.

And then, if Europe is the canary, those children won't have any children. When a post-Christian culture follows a Christian culture, what follows that is being subsumed by a religious culture -- in Europe's case, one in which atheists may have a much harder time of it.