ID, Hitler, Communism, and LULZ!

8/17/2008 | 11:58 PM | Evolved Rationalist

This post is a response to an annoying ID creationist who e-mails me with shitty arguments such as:

OMG the Communists were influenced by Darwin! Oh, ~~an hero~~ and Hitler too!
EVILution is the root of all that is bad in society!
ID is not creationism, LOL!

He also mentioned something along these lines:

You cannot talk about me on your blog, so delete fucking everything!

All I have to say to him is this: You continued to e-mail me even after being repeatedly told to read this. Therefore, take your BAWWWWW-ing somewhere else.

Where have we heard his claims before, folks? IDists sitting happily with young-earth Biblical Creationists agreeing that Darwin should be blamed for Hitler....

[sarcasm] Oh, no…ID has nothing whatsoever to do with creationism! It’s only those evil Nazi Darwinists making it up! [/sarcasm]

As with everything else in ID, all this ‘Darwin caused Hitler and communism and everything bad, BAWWWWW’ nonsense was standard YEC boilerplate thirty years ago, and is just being recycled by the IDers (is anyone actually surprised anymore?).

“The philosophies of Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche—the forerunners of Stalin and Hitler—have been particularly baleful in their effect: both were dedicated evolutionists.” (Morris, Troubled Waters of Evolution, 1974 p. 33)

Recently, the IDiots haven’t been doing much to hide their ties to creationism. Have Dembski et al decided that since ID is all but dead, it really wouldn’t matter anymore as long as their fat paychecks and free airplane tickets arrive in continuous streams from their theistarded church base?

Now, let’s take a look at the hackneyed creationist claim that evolution is the root cause of all moral and social ills of society. Some creationists even claim that basically everything that they deem wrong in society (i.e. communism) is caused by evolution. Leaving aside the fact that the Communist Manifesto was published before the Origin of Species, what has a biological theory of origins got to do with a political ideology? If biological theories indeed do have a link to seemingly negative political concepts, why aren’t any other theories apart from evolution singled out for blame by creationists? Doesn’t it seem funny that the only link they make is a link to a scientific theory they disagree with because of their fundamentalist interpretation of religion? Another area that disagrees with a literal interpretation of the Bible is plate tectonics. Why aren’t the creationists getting all hot and heated about the moral perversion caused by plate tectonics?

Come on now, creationists, don’t disappoint me! After decades of this same rehashed argument, surely you people would have found something undoubtedly evil about the theory of gravity as well. After all, isn’t it a huge insult to you that it is not some supernatural deity keeping us on the ground? What about those darned evil meteorologists who insist that thunder is NOT caused by God when the Bible explicitly states that it is? Where are all your missals and TV shows exposing all these evil ‘atheistic Darwinist perversions’? If you want to attack evolution by making it a scapegoat for all the evils around us, even some that are undoubtedly caused by religion, have the courage take it till the end.

Even if even if evolution led to Nazism/Communism/[insert crap here] or that Hitler admired Darwin, the scientific validity of the theory of evolution has nothing to do with the consequences of accepting the theory. I have addressed this claim in my review of EXPELLED (read it as I am not going to go over it again here to avoid the tl;dr problem).

Surprisingly, DaveScot seems to agree with us evil Nazi Darwinists on the stupidity of using the Hitler/Darwin argument. Lulz were to be had.

Folks, I am honestly pretty tired of this idiotic argument, and of this particular creationist. ~~However, I wonder if he likes mudkips...~~

Why do creationists have to be so fucking boring?