Georgia lawmaker: Evolution is a Jewish plot

February 19, 2007
By Billy Dennis

I try to NOT equate all conservative Christians with people like this anti-Semitic, Flat-Earther, but then I remind myself that this guy probably enjoys 90 voter approval from the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition:

“Indisputable evidence – long hidden but now available to everyone – demonstrates conclusively that so-called ’secular evolution science’ is the Big Bang, 15-billion-year, alternate ‘creation scenario’ of the Pharisee Religion,” writes Mr. Bridges, a Republican from Cleveland, Ga. He has argued against teaching of evolution in Georgia schools for several years.

He then refers to a Web site, www.fixedearth.com, that contains a model bill for state Legislatures to pass to attack instruction on evolution as an unconstitutional establishment of religion.

Mr. Bridges also supplies a link to a document that describes scientists Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein as “Kabbalists” and laments “Hollywood’s unrelenting role in flooding the movie theaters with explicit or implicit endorsement of evolutionism.”

No doubt Sen. John McCain is rushing to Georgia for a photo op with this guy. Not that McCain hates Jews or thinks the Earth is flat. But simply to acknowledge the vital role that fundie wackos like him play in grass-roots Republicanism.

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16 Responses to “ Georgia lawmaker: Evolution is a Jewish plot ”

  1. vaspersthegrate on February 19, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    Churchianity rants against evolution are so 1950s. I think both creation and evolution within species are both true, but I’m no biologist nor Bible scholar.

    These religious nuts ought to work on their own, and clean house, like Ted Haggard and all the other wolves in sheeps clothing.

  2. vaspersthegrate on February 19, 2007 at 2:09 pm

    I’m a Christian, but I love reading Darwin, Freud, Derrida, and even a little Nietzche. Gasp!

    Fear of science and logic does no religion any good. Look at how fundamentalist of all faiths are warring against each other, and against factions and sects within their own faith.

    • Anon E. Mouse on February 19, 2007 at 3:22 pm

      Exactly –
      Just look at “The Judean People’s Front”, “The People’s Front of Judea”, and “The Popular Front of Judea”.

  3. Archpundit on February 19, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    The Evil Atheist Conspiracy (EAC) strikes again.

    Did he say flat earth…..

    nooooooooooooooo….he said geocentric universe.

    It’s just another example of the shoddy ethics of the EAC in trying to undermine the views of geocentric creationists by painting them as luddites.

  4. PrairieCelt on February 19, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    So when do we get to return to the Constitutional guarantee of separation of church and state? Let the private and/or religous schools teach what they want. Leave the taxpayer-funded public schools alone.

  5. ollie on February 19, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    Interestingly enough, there was this Catholic Priest (early in the 20′th century) who couldn’t accept Einstein’s Relativity Theory.

    So, he set out to “prove” that the only valid geometry was the Euclidian one; that is, that Euclid’s 5′th postulate (commonly called the “parallel postulate”) could be proved from the other ones.

    Source: “Mathematical Cranks” by Underwood Dudley. :-)

  6. prego man on February 19, 2007 at 2:42 pm

    I always thought that the Hispanics were behind the whole concept.

    • ollie on February 19, 2007 at 3:32 pm

      which concept? Relativity? Nah, the guy who came up with that was a German Jew. ;-)

  7. Vonster on February 19, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    I’m sorry we Christians/Conservatives have some nutjobs of our own. They don’t represent me.

    • ollie on February 19, 2007 at 3:34 pm

      Vonster: YOU represent you. That is nutjob enough. ;-)

      • Vonster on February 20, 2007 at 10:43 am

        Gee thanks…..I think.

  9. Anon E. Mouse on February 19, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    There’s only two things I hate in this world.

    People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures

    and the Dutch.

  10. ben on February 19, 2007 at 6:46 pm

    Archpundit: how is thinking that our Third Rock is the center of the universe any different than thinking the Third Rock is flat? They’re both as ridiculous as me suggesting that Jesus was a turtle. Sure it /could/ be true, but no respectable scholar in the field would believe it to be.

  11. Archpundit on February 21, 2007 at 2:06 pm

    Ben–that’s the point–I’m making fun of the folks who make these arguments and base it upon some slight, but equally absurd difference between their claim and some similar claim.

  12. ben on February 21, 2007 at 5:34 pm

    :whoosh: Joke went right over my head. So many people /actually think/ like your sarcasm that I thought you were being serious. :-P