Decline and Fall

Some things are simply beyond parody. Kos links (via Burnt Orange Report) to a report that the Chairman of the Texas State House Appropriations Committee, Warren Chisum (R-Pampa), doesn't merely believe that God created the Earth in six days, but that the earth is fixed, and the sun revolves around it.

But that isn't even the worst of it. Chisum distributed a memo detailing the strategy to take the teaching of evolution out of public schools by exposing the true root of the "religion" of "Copernicanism." What is this root, you ask? If you guessed the Jews, you're right:

Indisputable evidence--long hidden but now available to everyone--demonstrates conclusively that so-called "secular evolution science" is the Big-Bang 15-billion-year alternate "creation scenario" of the Pharisee Religion. This scenario is developed concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic "holy book" Kabbala dating back at least two millennia.

Now you might say this is all just the crazy rantings of one seriously unstable legislator. But it's not just him. He got the idea from a Representative in the Georgia House, Ben Bridges (R-Cleveland), who is a member of the Higher Education Committee. This guy has a say on matters relating to the University of Georgia system, including funding priorities.

I'll give the whackjobs at The Fair Education Foundation this: they actually take the Bible as literally as young-earth creationists only claim they do. They point to 67 places in the Bible where it strongly implies that the Sun revolves around the Earth. This cannot be denied--it's right there in the good book. Thus, it is only logical to conclude that the doctrine of biblical inerrancy is thoroughly incompatible with the universe as it is actually observed. Either the evidence of science is right, or the Bible is. Both cannot be true.

Labels: creationism, fundamentalism, religion