Ethics

A New Creationist Strategy!

By Ed Brayton

Those of us who've been active in defending science education from the attacks of creationists, as I have for most of my adult life, often find great amusement in the fact that the anti-evolution movement evolves quite rapidly in response to changes in the legal environment. The latest strategy, apparently conceived by the brilliant minds of Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron, is relatively clever in concept and mind-numbingly idiotic in execution.

What did these two geniuses come up with? How about publishing an abridged edition of On the Origin of Species -- it is in the public domain now, after all -- and slap on an introduction full of blatantly creationist nonsense. Here's their sales pitch:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).