A preview of the upcoming electoral fireworks in Kansas, courtesy of the Hutchinson (KS) News. Well, we’re happy either way, kicking or not kicking…
BEING A CONSERVATIVE AND DEFENDING science and reason is sometimes a lonely affair. There are all too many people, otherwise fine conservatives, who lose all hope of rational thought when it comes to evolution and the development of the diversity of life on earth. Not that we expect it’s much better being a liberal — you don’t think that people who believe in magic healing crystals or channeling are voting for W, do you?
BARRY BONDS HAD the same problem, back at the very beginning of his career. He had to, first and foremost, break out of the shadow of his old man, Bobby Bonds, who was a heck of a ballplayer himself back in the day. So it is with Eric Hovind, the lesser-known crevangelist of the Hovind clan, and his father, the infamous Kent Hovind. Unlike Barry, however, Eric appears to have learned how to inject himself in the butt at his father’s knee.
WE HERE AT DARWIN CENTRAL just can’t help ourselves. What can we say? We just loooove our favorite darling bureaucreationists, Kathy Martin and Connie Morris. Love them at the top of our lungs. Any old excuse to gaze lovingly at them will do just fine.
SO HERE YOU ARE, thinking you’ve got your summer vacation all planned out, packing your bags to take the kids to Dinosaur Adventure Land, when suddenly you realize your vacation is in jeopardy due to Kent Hovind’s inability to understand and/or abide by A) the tax codes, and; B) building codes. Damn you, Dr. Dino! Now where are you gonna take the rug monkeys for their dose of Genesis?
OUR AMERICAN READERS may not be aware that, outside the US, the other great bastion of creationidiocy in the world is that wonderful and mysterious land Down Under. We here at Darwin Central are nothing if not sympathetic to our Australian cousins and soul-brothers, those political conservatives who are watching their conservatism slowly and stealthily being subverted by scientific illiterates and others who figure that if they can’t reconcile philosophy with reality, reality must be in error. Therefore, let us silently pay our respects to those beleaguered conservatives, while we witness village idiot John Mackay as he cracks a fat in public:
Noah, Mackay says, did take dinosaurs on the Ark (“probably baby ones”), but the dinosaurs did not survive long afterwards or at least never recovered their giant dimensions. “After the flood, there was a long winter,” he says. “In that competition, the sad thing is that we won and they lost.”
FROM THE WE’LL-PUBLISH-ANYTHING rolls of The Conservative Voice (“what is this ‘editor’ of which you speak?”), comes (cue drumroll) “The Changing Face of an Already Confused People”. Errata preserved verbatim, natch:
For those who may be reading who do not understand where this all began, let start from the very beginning: CREATION! To believe in jesus Christ, you first have to belive in a moment in history when God spoke the universe into existance in 6 literal days just as Moses wrote in the book of Genesis.
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Could we be possibly looking at a newly forming Christian school system where evolution would be discarded, homosexuality never mentioned, and condoms never heard of be coming soon?
Confusion reigns supreme, you betcha…
MAY 5, 1925 – John Scopes is arrested in Dayton, Tennessee and charged with violating the Butler Act.
Embarrasses everyone except herself.
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