Ethics

Ken Ham Goes to Europe

By Ed Brayton

What can you do but laugh about a statement like this:

After the Sunday service in Westminster Chapel, where worshippers were exhorted to wage "the culture war" in the World War II spirit of Sir Winston Churchill, cabbie James McLean delivered his verdict on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

"Evolution is a lie, and it's being taught in schools as fact, and it's leading our kids in the wrong direction," said McLean, chatting outside the chapel. "But now people like Ken Ham are tearing evolution to pieces."

Of course. Because the first person I turn to for information about science is a man who thinks that Adam and Eve's children put a saddle on a stegosaurus and rode them around.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 10, 2008 (boomark / email).