First they deny science, then all of reality, then they deny that they denied. Or something like that.
Georgia State Rep. Ben Bridges denies having written or sent the memorandum that was circulated in his name to Texas state legislators earlier this week. The Atlanta Constitution provides the incredible details in this morning’s edition:
“I did not put it out nor did I know it was going out,” Bridges said. “I’m not defending it or taking up for it.”
The memo directs supporters to call Marshall Hall, president of the Fair Education Foundation Inc., a Cornelia, Ga.-based organization that seeks to show evolution is a myth. Hall said he showed Bridges the text of the memo and got his permission to distribute it.
“I gave him a copy of it months ago,” said Hall, a retired high school teacher. “I had already written this up as an idea to present to him so he could see what it was and what we were thinking.”
Hall said his wife Bonnie has served as Bridges’ campaign manager since 1996.
Bridges acknowledged that he talked to Hall about filing legislation this year that would end the teaching of evolution in Georgia’s public schools. Bridges said the views in the memo belong to Hall, though Bridges said he doesn’t necessarily disagree with them.
It’s getting so creationists no only can’t do science straight, can’t do religion straight — they can’t even tell whoppers straight.
But it’s even worse. The memorandum has gone not just to the Texas Lege, but on to several other states as well.
Bridges (R-Cleveland) denies having anything to do with the memo. But one of his constituents said he wrote the memo with Bridges’ approval before it was recently distributed to lawmakers in several states, including Texas, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
It may be true that there really is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe. In fact, dark matter, that dense and unseeable stuff that vexes cosmic physics, may be made wholly of stupidity, judging by the density.
Other coverage of note:
- Jerusalem Post, Associated Press story, “Jewish group demands apology for evolution memo”
- WFAA Channel 8, Dallas, “Memo: Stop teaching evolution” by Robert Garrett
- Editorial in Houston Chronicle, “Not in Kansas anymore: Just when Kansas returns science to the classroom, Rep. Chisum tries to goad Texas toward Dark Ages”
- SciGuy blog from Houston Chronicle, “Warren Chisum: Science is a religion, too”
- Texas Freedom Network, “Chisum Launches Attack on Evolution”
I’m still looking for a copy of the memorandum, petition, or whatever it was. It’s bound to be chock-full of amazing claims. If you know where I might find a copy, please advise.
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I don’t know about the memorandum, and doubt if it would dare include the comments on the website. The website, or one of them linked is
http://www.fixedearth.com/ and yes, it is one of the prime examples of looneys around. It is worth checking out as one of the finest examples of pure weirdness around.
Just a couple of examples:
“Christian Creationism is controlled by those who are doctrinally wedded to Zionist Dispensational goals. This marriage has blinded the Creationist leadership to the fact that both the Zionist and the Dispensational concepts come from that same 13th century anti-Christ Kabbalist source as did Relativism, Big Bangism, and the Expanding Universe concepts. Add it up!”
and
“This Bible-destroying agenda is, at bottom, a diabolical strategy which has employed Theoretical Science (i.e., “science falsely so called”: I Tim. 6:20) with ever-increasing success since the Copernican Revolution historically began in 1543.
That Revolution ultimately succeeded not only nullifying numerous plain geocentrism Scriptures, thereby blasting a gaping hole in the Bible’s credibility as the inerrant Word of God, it also effectively paved the way for the substitution of the Theoretical Sciences for God as the source of Truth in all areas of “knowledge”.
Thus, the steady success of that Revolution (without the first piece of indisputable evidence!) paved the way for the success of the Darwinian Revolution and the concomitant Marxian, Freudian, Einsteinian, Saganian Revolutions. These have all been true Revolutions that have brought about a total restructuring of man’s “knowledge” or, as Nietzsche aptly put it: “A transvaluation of values” (HERE). Every aspect of these Revolutions has been based on the alleged destruction and defeat of the credibility of the Bible as the source of all Truth…and on the transfer of that credibility to the pronouncements of the Theoretical Science Establishment. ”
I am perfectly willing to believe that Bridges had no idea what these people believed, that he thought they were just ‘normal creationists,’ and a constituent asked if he’d sign a memo for them. I doubt if anyone, even from that region of Georgia — isn’t it in the same district that brought us Rep. Westmoreland — would knowingly support a site that considers Falwell to be a tool of the Kabbalists and not only denies the ‘end times scenario’ but writes
“Can all those connections be coincidental?! The odds on that being the case are statistically off the board. But then factor this in: The “Christian Zionist” Dispensational Millennialist Eschatology itself was also described by that same 13th century Rabbi in the overtly anti-Christ Cabbala along with Zionism, Relativity, Big Bangism, and an Expanding Universe (HERE)! Bye, bye any chance of “coincidence” here, statistical or otherwise! ”
In fact, they deny the whole idea of a ‘Second Coming.’ And they make the following claim:
“That Jesus’ Role As “God” Is A Real But Temporary One” (??????)
No, not even a Georgia legislator could support it if he read it — or had it read to him.
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