Ethics

A New Godwin's Law?

By Ed Brayton

We all know about Godwin's law, where the first person to invoke Nazi comparisons in an argument loses. We need a new one for the evolution/creationism dispute: first one to invoke Jeffrey Dahmer loses. The Texas creationists trying to screw up science education in that state are doing so. Donna Garner forwarded an email originally written by Kelly Coghlan, a Texas attorney and creationist, with the title "Jeffrey Dahmer believed in evolution." It included this claim:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 08, 2009 (boomark / email).