Ethics

Buchanan Blathers About Evolution

By Ed Brayton

I actually already had Pat Buchanan's latest column on my screen to write a response to when a reader emailed me and referred to the column as "Brayton bait." And that is indeed what it is, a column full of discredited nonsense by someone who knows nothing about evolution but is utterly unaware of their own ignorance.

I am always amused when general-topic writers take on this particular issue while knowing nothing about it and think that by reading a few creationist websites or pamphlets they know all they need to know about evolution. This column is a textbook example. It's basically a cliff's notes version of the creationist jokebook.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).