Darwin is the one true God. There is no God but Darwin. All.. WAIT. WTF?

[ragingemu]

TheJusticeOnline.com: LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Darwinism is a religion, shouldn't be promoted by a college president

Umm.... O - K.

Where was I when science became a religion?

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[valadil]

Where were you when religion became a science? Seriously, the person referred to creationim and intelligent design as scientific theories, which just goes to show how ignorant they are on the whole debate.

On the other hand I have seen people treat science as a religion and have found them more irritating than your typical religious zealots.

[yehoshua]

Dogmatism is tiresome irrespective of whose agenda is being served. Luckily, I've sort of given up on people liking me, so I don't mind just walking away from the fuckwits when they're ranting at me and getting their drool in my coffee.

[violetshade]

"All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all

[yehoshua]

I've re-read this letter four times now, and it's painful every time. The letter borders on incoherent, and the reasoning is weak if not completely fallacious. It's letters like this that (a) make me hate undergrads and (b) ashamed to be an alumnus of this place. The only comfort I can take is that I know there are even dumber kids writing letters to the editor at BU and BC (and YU... oy vey!).

[theshrewd]

I bet we were hanging out somewhere, being brainwashed.

It's times like these that I lose what little faith I had left in humanity.

[lucky13horizons]

One day God looked at the world, decided there wasn't enough pain and suffering in it, and created this article to fix that problem.