The title of this blog is not, as I thought when I first saw it, some kind of mneumonic or amusing acronym. It is an actual quote from this website which contains one of the most self-defeating and ridiculous critiques of evolutionary theory that I have ever seen. The page simply drips both stupidity and casual grammatical errors: "[Darwinism] convinced people they were descended from ape-likes".
This article is utterly unscientific and contain no citations (although there is an amusing list of links including such wonderful titles as "A Historical Lie: The Stone Age". Skipping over (for now) the fact that it should be An Historical Lie, I find denying the concept of a time when human beings used stone tools a little far-fetched, even for a religious nutjob.) or basic references to some of its claims, even the ones that are technically true (Piltdown Man was a hoax, just not by "Darwinists"). One of their links also cites surveys showing that 92% of French people don't believe in evolution (French people don't believe in anything) and 88% of Danish people disagree with the statement "Human Beings Are Descended From Apes". Discarding for a moment the possibility that the Danes were thrown by the Unecessary Over Use Of Capital Letters, the likelihood is that their superior scientific education allowed them to spot the trick question: Humans and Apes may have had a common ancestor, but there is no line of descent. Takes more than that to fool the Danish. Must be the pastries.
Or perhaps I have missed the point of this article. Perhaps by simply existing and demonstrating their utter lack of intelligence the authors hope to refute Darwin's theory. How can people this stupid have been allowed to a) live b) reproduce c) have unsupervised access to a computer?
For a much more educated discussion of evolution, full of handy ways to shut up creationists, try here or simply get yourself a decent education. Not in Kansas, ideally.
Evolution is a Theory. So is gravity. Now go jump off a building.
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You have found a truly wonderful website! I'll save it to lighten my dark days. When motivated by the belief in the superiority of their religion, it's fantastic what people can accomplish.
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