Ooooh dear, here's a letter to the editor in my newspaper today

[LarissaAnn]

Yeah this was literally in our newspaper today....

To the editor — If it weren’t so sad it would be laughable. The old story of the king who had no clothes is a play on this reality. The human mind has the ability to deceive itself in order to avoid a painful truth.

The painful truth that man has always tried to avoid is there is a God in heaven who he is accountable to. The Elwha River ecosystem is snapping back at a rapid pace, so the Yakima Herald-Republic tells us with a Seattle Times article on Aug. 17. But why should that happen if only blind chance moves the universe?

Oh, you say, the plants and animals have DNA that guides them to return to form. Isn’t DNA information? Where did the information come from? Can information invent itself? Consider, when I turn to the Internet my basic sense tells me someone designed this, someone put this information in here.

Darwinian evolution truly is the king with no clothes merrily strutting down the street while all the common folk laugh him to scorn.

Of course through his own words the irony just writes itself:

The human mind has the ability to deceive itself in order to avoid a painful truth.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Yup.

As soon as I saw that followed by the person invoking 'god' I immediately stopped caring.

[Crossless2.0]

Christians invoking "The Emperor's New Clothes" to make a point is too deliciously ironic. Idiot.

This reminds me how several years ago, when I was living in Nevada, some warrior for Christ got an involved word salad of fallacies and scientific illiteracy -- supposedly demonstrating how evolution was wrong and a poisonous gift of the devil (this last was a quote) -- into the op-ed page of the local paper. I was so incensed that our paper would print such nonsense that I wrote a point-by-point refutation and submitted it to the editor. Needless to say, it didn't get published. When I inquired why, I was told that it was too long (though it was no longer than the letter I responded to) and that in their opinion it wasn't worth opening the op-ed page to an ongoing and "irresolvable controversy" (their exact words) when there were so many other issues in need of discussion. It was then that I flashed back on my high school biology teacher who was too much a pussy to cover evolution because he didn't want the headache of dealing with fundie students and parents.

Sometimes it's so embarrassing to be an American.

[ignoramus]

OMFG WTF!

[Chad32]

The irony is strong with this one.

[bennyboy]

That's the problem with the paper "forums"-- you can't immediately post "Not sure if trolling" memes.