Ethics

Robert O'Brien Trophy Winner: Tom Willis

By Ed Brayton

The month isn't even halfway over yet, but we have found a worthy recipient of the Robert O'Brien Trophy as the idiot of the month. Hell, this guy might qualify as the Grand Poobah Dumbass of the century: Tom Willis. In this bizarre rant, Willis not only argues - quite seriously - that "evolutionists" should be ineligible to vote but that they should be "violently" removed from society. Seriously.

Perhaps you're not familiar with Tom Willis. He's the founder of the Creation Science Association of Mid-America, based in Kansas. He's probably the only creationist who is so ridiculous that I would rank him below Kent Hovind - and just pause for a moment to ponder just how ridiculous one would have to be to be worse than Kent Hovind. He's not just a creationist, mind you, he's also a geocentrist. Yep, he's that far gone.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).