I Give Up

Someone gave Ben Stein money to make a movie supporting creationism. Ben Stein thinks the theory of evolution is a foundational principle of nazism. 

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/video-ben-stein.html

Ben Stein is an educated man and a jew and so one assumes he has been exposed to a bit of history:

The catalog of anti-semitism, the centuries of pogroms, ethnic cleansing and religious murder that have been universal features of european social and political activity until modern times cannot be lost upon him.

The fact that the mindless brutality which fascism forged into a political and social crusade was a part of Catholic and Protestant education for centuries before Darwin cannot be news to him. 

That those churches which most violently opposed the theory of evolution, as well as the germ theory of disease and observations of a helio-centric solar system, were also the greatest boosters of jewish slaughter.

It cannot be lost on Ben Stein as he conjures the most transparent slanders that in doing so he makes common-cause with the kind of bigotry, ignorance and fear-mongering which provided the foundation and nourishment for fascism and for centuries of its previous incarnations. 

Ben Stein is not a stupid man. He’s not an ignorant man. So how does one explain his arrival at such stupid, ignorant conclusions and with such mindless and transparently dishonest argument?

 

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