Troy Britain wrote:
> "Dan Clore" <clore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:4kdedkFbihn1U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>Human Events has an article by Phyllis Schlafly here:
>>http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16499
>>
>>I have responded to them as follows:
>>
>>Phyllis Schlafley makes a strikingly false claim in this article. She
says
>>that "Despite bitter denunciations by liberals, funny thing, there has
>>been a thundering silence about the one-third of her book in which she
>>deconstructs Darwinism."
>>
>>In actual fact, the responses to Coulter's book have included several
>>in-depth refutations of Coulter's attempt to disprove (not deconstruct)
>>Darwinian evolution. These include:
>>
>>http://mediamatters.org/items/200607070010
>>http://mediamatters.org/items/200607240008
>>http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/06/anne_coulter_cl_1.html
>>http://www.talkreason.org/articles/coulter1.cfm
>>http://www.talkreason.org/articles/coulter2.cfm
>>http://www.talkreason.org/articles/coulter3.cfm
>>http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/06/ann_coulter_no_evidence_for_ev.php
>>http://www.talkreason.org/articles/coultergeist.cfm
>>http://www.countercurrents.org/goff100706.htm
>>http://www.csicop.org/intelligentdesignwatch/tautology.html
>>http://mediamatters.org/items/200608070002
>>(You will note that Schlafly's article was posted on August 14, 2006, a
>>month or longer after many of these rebuttals. Schlafly would have
learned
>>of the falsehood of her claim with a simple Google search.)
>>
>>Ann Coulter's claims about evolution have been definitively debunked.
>>
>>******
>>
>>I would appreciate any more links to good debunkings that readers may
>>have.
> Coulter makes the same (outrageous) claim herself. In fact she said it
on
> the C-span2 Booktv program aired on Saturday.
>
> See: http://www.booktv.org/General/index.asp?segID=7327&schedID=444
Thanks (and to everyone who gave links). Coulter earlier
made this claim on the 700 Club:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200607240008
ROBERTSON: You spend a lot of time on Darwinism in your
book, and I think that's one of the reasons you're getting
so much heat here is how effective your arguments are. I
thought I was fairly informed. But I confess, your book has
taught me some new arguments here that I hadn't had in my
arsenal before. And I congratulate you for it. I think your
book is a tour de force. It's something I recommend to
everyone to read.
COULTER: Thank you. And by the way, they haven't argued with
me directly on that either. I mean, the left really hates
me. But no one seems to want to argue about the Darwinism. I
mean, it's exactly like my defense of Joe McCarthy a couple
of books back in Treason. Liberals build up this 50-year
myth on Joe McCarthy in one case, on Darwinism in the other.
And you know, I come along and say it's all a crock, and no
one wants to argue back. If you read a single paragraph from
my book in the Darwin chapters in a public school, the
teacher would be fired -- would be banned from ever teaching
again. But I go on -- it's about a third, a quarter of the
book -- and no one wants to argue directly about it because
it is a myth. It is part of their religious faith. There is
no evidence for it -- not the evidence Darwin expected to
find. It is what scientists refer to as a pseudoscience.
There is nothing they will accept to disprove Darwin's
theory. It's like tarot-card reading.
*****
That was on July 21. Note that this was after she had been
debunked at length by Media Matters, Panda's Thumb,
Pharyngula, Darwin Central, Right Wing Professor's Blog,
CounterCurrents, Skeptic's Dictionary, etc. (Anyone know the
dates for the Talk Reason articles?)
--
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