The creationists and fundies have been pretty quiet lately, but two readers have tried to inject their creationist views into the comments. Respond if you want; they’re not going to be posting here again.
First, reader “Joe” had this to say about the post “Ben Carson on evolution: an ignorant (or duplicitious) Presidential candidate”:
Reality?? Why do atheists/evolutionists always assume that if someone doesn’t believe in evolution it’s because of his/her religious beliefs…in ‘reality’ it’s the other way around. These so called scientists who have accepted the ‘theory’ of evolution as fact and in turn the people who blindly believe what these so called ‘scientists’ say because they THINK it’s science because a ‘scientist’ said it…..it is these people that subsume reality because they absolutely and unequivocally deny any existence of God. During a debate on the issue, most will even go as far as saying that ‘maybe it was aliens who put us here’ once they see the complete idiocy of evolution and how ridiculous it really is. They, and probably yourself as well, will believe ANYTHING but God…….
Joe apparently doesn’t realize that virtually all opposition to evolution, whether in the US or elsewhere, comes from religion. Given the copious evidence for evolution (documented in A CERTAIN BOOK), the only reason to doubt it is religion: evolution clashes with religious stories of origins. After all, we don’t see organized opposition to the “theories” of gravity or relativity. Why not? It’s religion, stupid.
And Joe needs to read that book!
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Reader “Theo Philos” (what a name!) penned a poem in response to one on Intelligent Design I wrote earlier. He reproduced my poem before proffering his own pathetic effort as an attempted comment on the post (by Matthew Cobb) on “Excellent open access articles on the evolution of life on Earth.”
Dear Jerry,
a few days ago I read your Moar Poetry on Intelligent Design. I found it quite amusing. I penned a rebuttal poem, in jest, and I trust you will find no offense whatsoever in it, since none is intended.
Best Regards,
Theo
Intelligent Design [JAC: this is mine]
(with apologies to Joyce Kilmer)
I think that I shall never see
A theory dumber than ID.
It says that God can make a tree,
A beaver or a honeybee—
That God can simply get a whim
To make the small E. coli swim;
He waves his hand through Heaven’s air
And lo! Flagella everywhere!
But sometimes even God falls down
And makes a poor pathetic clown:
Yes, poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make Behe.
Random Mindless Evolution
(with apologies to Charles Darwin)
I think that I shall never see
A man —– than J. Coynee.
He believes Evolution can make a flea,
Even rational beings like you and me-
That Evolution can simply get a whim,
To take a toad and through “paste and trim”
Turn it into a dolphin than can leap and swim;
That with DNA, it built blood, bones, nerves & hair,
And Lo! Birds, fish, animals & people everywhere!
But eventually even Evolutionists will fall down,
They will trip on their pretensions, and simply frown;
Yes, poems are made by fools like “thee”,
But only the Creator can make you and me.
Umm. . . “no offense intended”? I think the blanks in line two say otherwise. And oy, the lack of scanning! You’ll notice that, in contrast, my lines scan perfectly. As for the topic of the second poem, the less said, the better. (I’ll just note that evolution is not a completely random process.)
