The Right's Favorite Historian: Founding Fathers Opposed Darwin

[eqfan592]

I posted about this this over in the Science forum, but it would also fit here as well, I believe, because of the strong religious undertones.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x80067

[hobbit709]

1. TSTL: Too Stupid To Live

Makes you wonder how these people lived this long.

Mark Twain was right "God must love idiots, otherwise He wouldn't have made so many of them"

[eqfan592]

2. What scares me the most...

...is how many people just listen to this sort of garbage without question, including some who fancy themselves potential candidates for the Presidency. Just unbelievable....

[cleanhippie]

5. What scares me even more is how so-called "liberal christians" say that this is just a minority.

We are told that this is just the fringe of christianity in this country. That there is nothing to see here, move along.

[Puzzler]

3. Clearly, CNN needs to have a "balanced" debate on which came first:

... the year 1776 or 1859.

"We report, you decide".

[JustAnotherGen]

4. My thought

Exactly! The stupid - it hurts!

[sakabatou]

6. So what if they did? Doesn't make the theory less true.

[eqfan592]

7. A fair point to be sure.

I don't think even the founding fathers would think of themselves as infallible. However, given that C.D.'s theory did not come about until many years after the founding of the nation, it would have been impossible for them to disagree with the theory, as it hadn't even been brought about yet in anything even close to its modern form.

[LeftishBrit]

8. snort!

[white_wolf]

9. Orgin of Species was published in 1859.

Thomas Jefferson died in 1828,Paine died in 1809, Washington died in 1799, Hamilton died in 1804. I could list more, but I think my point has been made.

[onager]

10. I knew that HAD to be David Barton

He founded a group called "Wallbuilders." Nothing to do with the "wall" between Church and State, but you knew that already.

"Presenting America's forgotten imagined history..."

There, I fixed their slogan for 'em.

Calling Barton a "historian" is an insult to the profession. He's a historian, maybe, in the same sense as David Irving - he has one narrow point of view through which he filters all the facts before he turns them upside down. But at least before Irving went completely Nazi-nuts, he was a diligent researcher and a decent writer. Barton has never been anything but a lazy theocratic propagandist.

http://wallbuilders.com/