RE: Creationist "Kind" - A Classification with No Definition
March 3, 2018 at 11:26 am
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2018 at 11:26 am by Fake Messiah.)
Kent Hovind is a creationist. There are also "Truthers" who believe that 9/11 was an inside job, "choicers" that believe that people make an active, conscious decision to be gay, "birthers" believe that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and "deathers" believe that Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living in with Obamas - sleeping between Barack and Michelle.
Like their truther, birther, and deather brethren, creationists are nut jobs who can't be swayed by the evidence (which they refuse to look at and then claim doesn't exist) or by reason (which they lack any capacity for).
The scientific evidence that the Earth is billions of years old, and life on this planet evolved over hundreds of millions of years is kept in the same locked filing cabinet with the evidence that homosexuality is not a choice and that climate change is real. Everyone seems to have a key to this filing cabinet with the exception of conservative politicians, evangelical ministers, talk radio hosts, bigots, racists and the majority of the GOP's base.
Like their truther, birther, and deather brethren, creationists are nut jobs who can't be swayed by the evidence (which they refuse to look at and then claim doesn't exist) or by reason (which they lack any capacity for).
The scientific evidence that the Earth is billions of years old, and life on this planet evolved over hundreds of millions of years is kept in the same locked filing cabinet with the evidence that homosexuality is not a choice and that climate change is real. Everyone seems to have a key to this filing cabinet with the exception of conservative politicians, evangelical ministers, talk radio hosts, bigots, racists and the majority of the GOP's base.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
