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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

The terrors of evolution

Wow (via It Affects You):
It is [Dr. D. James] Kennedy's opinion that Christians who embrace evolution are compromising their faith. He describes evolution as the most destructive idea ever to enter the mind of man, and a concept that has killed more people than all religions that ever existed.

"Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime," he said. "There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on it conscience." And it is amazing, he added, that evolution -- despite its widespread acceptance -- has no scientific basis. "There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it."

I had no idea.

I'd like to see some arguments backing that number, because, as It Affects You points out, that's a larger number than anything, ever. They continue:
Much of America voted for Bush because they thought he would do a better job keeping them safe from terrorists. Well, the group which openly claims to have delivered the victory to Bush thinks otherwise. This group sees not terrorism as the enemy. They don't even see poverty as the enemy. Or ruthless dictators. To protect America, they will attack evolution, same-sex marriage and reproductive rights first and foremost. That is their priority, and I do not think that is what mainstream America ever intended.