"Evolution is a Lie from the Pit of Hell" Broun (R-GA)

[cthulu2016]

Even by the standards of insane video, this is some seriously insane video—the Hall of Dead Deer Heads is unforgettable.

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) tore into scientists as tools of the devil in a speech at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman’s Banquet last month.

“All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell,” Broun said. “And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.”

According to Broun, the scientific plot was primarily concerned with hiding the true age of the Earth. Broun serves on the House Science Committee, which came under scrutiny recently after another one of its Republican members, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), suggested that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses against pregnancy.

“You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I’ve found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth,” he said. “I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says.”

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/rep-paul-broun-r-ga-evolution-big-bang-lies-straight-from-the-pit-of-hell.php?ref=fpb

Short Video Highlight Link:
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/rep-paul-broun-r-ga-evolution-big-bang-lies-straight-from-the-pit-of-hell.php?ref=fpb

Entire Speech:

[onehandle]

1. The Catholic Church believes in Evolution.

That's all I got.

[cthulu2016]

2. The Catholic Church probably also believes Obama was born in the USA

Unlike Rep. Broun.

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. This whack-a-doodle is on the House *SCIENCE* Committee?????

Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo-stick, these delusional nutbags are starting to scare me!! I ususally just laugh at them, or ignore them.... but ignoring their ignorance may just be the problem, it lets it grow deeper!

Do they sell lions on craigslist??

[Ganja Ninja]

25. And Michelle Bachman is on the "intelligence" Committee.

Who says Republicans don't have a sense of humor?

[Ghost in the Machine]

43. They have a sense of *something*, alright.... I don't think it's humor..

... more like pathetic irony!

Cheers, Ganja Ninja

Peace,

Ghost

[dawg]

4. I'm so proud.

And don't forget, that's "Doctor" Paul Broun.

[Erose999]

7. If my doctor said shit like that I'd get a new doctor.

[dawg]

9. Yeah. It isn't like evolution has anything to do with biology.

I guess he thinks either God or the Devil made all those crazy bones and buried them in the ground just to mess with us.

[hifiguy]

17. This klown is an M.D.??

I wouldn't let him treat a stuffed animal much less a living thing. Holy sheet!!

[Care Acutely]

39. Almost anyone willing to put in the very hard word to get the degree, can.

Most people simply seeking to make money will choose another, easier path because of the enormous commitment of time and effort it takes to make it through. This and the prohibitive cost of a medical education usually thins away those who are less gifted or poorly motivated.

Usually.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. Hell is a lie from the depths of some deranged people's mental illness.

[Erose999]

6. All those dead animals are fucking creepy. I could see a trophy or two but jeezus...

[sadbear]

8. Am I wrong? Isn't this guy supposed to be a medical doctor?

How the hell does he reconcile that with everything he "learned" in med school? What a douche.

[Erose999]

10. He doesn't. He just regurgitates what the GOP Mullah's tell him to. He's playing that crowd like

they are.

For what its worth I don't think he's much of a doctor.

[HereSince1628]

11. This is an issue for the people of the Georgia 10th district

He's their choice. Congress and the nation get to deal with whatever falls out of that.

Personally I find it delicious that a licensed MD disbelieves the central organizing principle of biology and finds no conflict with that extreme belief and the acceptance of results of medical research on animal models. I'd dump an MD who suggested divine intervention as medical recourse in an instant.

[cthulu2016]

13. He even rejects embryology

[HereSince1628]

14. Still leaves him the problem of the Georgia 10th.

If you respect our system of representative government, then it's necessary to respect the choice of the people of the Georgia 10th.

Carping about his stupidity (and I do mean stupid in the sense of slow on the uptake...by somewhere between 150 and 72 years depending on what particular piece of evidence you ,ight think cinched evolution as overwhelmingly empirically supported) really doesn't do much.

[Erose999]

16. He's not our choice, theres no Democratic challenger this election. Our local Dems failed to field

a candidate. GA-10 is a shit sandwich none of our local politicians who are qualified want a bite of, apparently.

[HereSince1628]

19. It's not like somewhere else can send you a candidate.

This is your problem, fix it or don't.

[Erose999]

23. They just drew up new districts. Athens in carved up amongst very conservative areas. Sadly, that

fucker won his primary and is now running unopposed.

I plan on writing in a vote for Pee Wee Herman.

[Glitterati]

32. Athens, GA = UGA

This seat should be as blue as downtown Atlanta, yet the DEM party can't even field a candidate.

If they'd stop fighting with each other, and fight for good seats like this one, they might freak themselves out and win.

This rest of this district consists of cow fields, cows and one or two farmers.

[Erose999]

34. Most college kids don't vote here, and the ones that do are about an even split. Its a blue area,

but the Teabaggers in the state house have succeeded in parsing it out between red areas.

[Glitterati]

37. I know this area well

It's Athens, then cowfields and farms. Several pottery barns, with one or two employees.

One tiny town in each county, population 100, if that.

My husband worked in Cornelia.

on edit:
And, if the DEMs got busy at UGA lots of those kids WOULD vote.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. He's an effective advertisement for gun control.

[Downwinder]

15. Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) IS an argument against evolution.

[hifiguy]

18. DEVO was right.

Even given Darwin's laws, nothing prevents de-evolution.

A bag of hammers is at least useful, which is more than can be said for this cluster of fk.

[dawg]

21. I would say that he's a Homo Erectus.

But he'd just think it was something else.

[DefenseLawyer]

20. The stupider they are, the more their base trusts them n/t

[dawg]

22. ONE OF US!

ONE OF US!

[stuntcat]

24. That elected officials will say this & be taken seriously should be horrifying to everyone in US.

It's 2012. It's time for us to finally (decades too late) learn to live with science.

This is the greatest shame on our species. And what does it mean if it's a United States elected official saying it? hmm

[patrice]

26. Blaspheming coward.

[hrmjustin]

27. You know this idiot is going to be re-elected. You just know it.

[Glitterati]

31. Of couse he is - he has no opponent!

Because the DEM party in Georgia would rather fight with EACH OTHER than the republicans.

Broun is running unopposed.

[Initech]

28. OK so a guy who flat out rejects evolution is on the House SCIENCE Committee?????

Man Bill Hicks destroyed these idiots a long time ago....

[patrice]

33. I'd bet most people don't understand why that's a problem, because they don't know what science is.

And they don't think their ignorance of the nature of knowledge/science matters.

It's almost a laff, 'cause, since truth matters, their ignorance matters, so we might speculate that the dysfunctions they propagate are painful lessons in store for all of us. Question is: how painful? in what manner(s)? for how many? because the answers to those questions can make or break the success of almost any adaptive correction.

[ladjf]

29. He believes that the Earth was created 9,000 years ago.

How does he square his beliefs with geology and carbon dating?

He is spewing dangerous obscenities about science. It's most unfortunate for the children of
his district that they may well be hearing some of this garbage.

I thought I had seen it all, but, Congressman Broun may be the dumbest of the dumb and the most arrogant of the arrogant. It is disaster that he is allowed to speak in public.

[Occulus]

41. He believes they're lies put there by the christian god to test our faith

which makes the christian god a fucking liar, IMO

[Quantess]

30. House Science & Ladyparts Committee

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[Care Acutely]

40. I LOVE it!

[Marrah_G]

35. Perfect example of why Washington is so fucked up

[sakabatou]

36. Shouldn't there be a test to be on that committee?

[jeanmarc]

38. This moron should be laughed right out of office.

[muriel_volestrangler]

42. Politician disses embryology; embryologists promptly win Nobel prize

Jerry beat me to posting the just announced Nobel winners, John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka (see here also), but I can’t help but note that the prize was awarded for work in embryology, Gurdon having done classic cytological (cell and nucleus) manipulation experiments 50 years ago, while Yamanaka has applied more recently available molecular tools to the same problem. Gurdon was able to place an adult nucleus inside a frog egg, and induce the egg to develop into a normal tadpole (showing that the adult nucleus retains all the information for normal embryonic development), while Yamanaka discovered the molecular signals in the egg that tell the nucleus to “start over”.

Congressman Paul Broun (R-Georgia), of course, has just become a media star (see here, here, and here for just a few examples) for denouncing embryology as a hellish lie. That Broun is an MD spewing such nonsense is made deliciously comic by the Nobel Prize for Medicine being awarded for work in embryology the day after Broun became infamous, but the tale becomes tragic when you realize he is a member of the House Science Committee.

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/politician-disses-embryology-embryologists-win-nobel-prize/

[occupymybrain]

44. But I dont Belive in hell.......

How old is the earth? I don't think they have a clue. I'm not sure they believe the earth is round yet? They certainly don't get science.