Sweet Jumpin’ Jehosephat. Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA): Evolution, Big Bang ‘Lies Straight From The Pit Of Hell’. Rep. Broun serves in the House of Representatives on the House Science Committee. Quoth Rep. Broun:
“All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell,” Broun said.
It’d be like putting me on the House Committee for Confederate Heritage or Class Basketball Advocacy or Legible Penmanship.
He’s also likely certain the Sun revolves around the Earth.
Broun is an MD with a BS in Chemistry. Admission standards must be very low in Georgia. He told this delusional tale to the Baptist Church’s Sportsmen Committe.
Broun claims as a “scientist” that he has seen a “lot of evidence” that this is a really young earth.
Perhaps the Democrats can take the house and this pathetic figure can go back to carrying water for the NRA. And I would hope the Georgia Medical Association would revoke his license.
And James Madison thought Americans would elect “the best and brightest” to represent us…Another representative from the aptly named southern states comprising “Dumbfuckistan.”
And why has it been that the United States has plummeted in world rankings for education, in students’ science, math, etc., scores? It is probably because we have a Federal Department of Education (tongue-in-cheek). Or maybe it is because we have such representatives as these in positions to determine education’s funding.
Or maybe it’s because we have a citizenry that values science so little that they elect representatives who are wilfully blind to evidence when their faith tells them to be.
Unfortunately, humanities and the fine and liberal arts are valued even less…
Broun is just a sample. Watch what happens if Pence teams up with the legislature.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/jon-stewart-fucking-crazy-gop-candidates-todd-akin_n_1961000.html
Jon Stewart on Broun, Alan West, Joe Walsh, and how state legislators can be even more unhinged.
The theory mentioned was originally proposed for consideration by a Jesuit and the establishment was just sure it was a means of sneaking God in the back door. The herd of science sorts mumbled along about this dumb attempt to smuggle God back into the discussion until evidence began to be found for the theory. I think the major piece was the cosmic background radiation (the echo of the Big Bang) found while looking for something else. That was in the early 1960’s, I think, but since then there has been more evidence produced from both science and metaphysics and math. It is still just a theory but it seems to have some predictive value.
Per Wikipedia:
It was background radiation from the Big Bang.
Todd Akin and Paul Broun. Devlolved from the same horses’s tush and demonstrating the the evolution of human intelligence is optional within members of the species.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/12/1003121/todd-akin-no-science-behind-evolution/