Kirk Cameron is an academic terrorist
I cannot stand this clown. He is the peak of ignorance. Kirk Cameron, professor of biology from the Universi… oh, wait, sorry, 80s child actor, plans to distribute a vandalized version of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. This version is punctuated with ignorant religious commentary where it has no business being. Cameron has been publicly shamed before on TV and his photoshopped image of a ‘Crocoduck’ was the laughing stock of semi-educated people everywhere. 
Crocoduck: proof of the failure of our educational system.
The very concept of the ‘crocoduck’ exemplifies the ignorance of the Creationist argument. Cameron holds up a picture of a duck with a crocodile head then asks “Have you ever seen one of these?” Well, no. I used to have this kids game where you could trace the front end and back end of various animals together, but I was in kindergarten and lost interest in silly kids games. The problem with his crocoduck is it displays no knowledge of taxonomy or evolution. It’s just the result of an ignorant Christian and his Bible trying to play ball with the big boys.
Science by nature is complicated and if everyone understood it, we wouldn’t need schools where hard-earned and field accepted knowledge is constantly refined, tested and taught. These guys never take issue with math or chemistry, but because evolution assumes we came from what many religions classify as a ‘lower’ animal it cannot be right. The Bible has no connection to any academic study, system or ideal, it was just desert nomads trying to use their stories to explain everything. What do they say about microbes? Nothing? Wow, big surprise. What about viruses? Nothing again? Wow, big surprise. A flat Earth? Wrong. An Earth-centric universe? Wrong again faithful.
Now Cameron (and hundreds of other God-warriors) are bringing this ancient storybook to science class. It is dangerous and terrible. It's like me arguing against the Theory of Relativity with a rocket scientist based on the film Back to the Future. I have tried not to blog about this sort of thing but when your mind is free to consult ALL the information you begin to really see how narrow and silly the religious talk is. And all you kindly on-the-fence types need to understand that denying science is on par with book burning and other massively ignorant acts. If you want to disprove evolution, go for it, there is a whole field of scientists waiting for you to come up with irrefutable evidence, until then “God did it” is not going to suffice in light of billions of pieces of evidence to the contrary. And an 80s TV star is certainly not the messiah of knowledge. Everything is in flux, i.e., evolving, the planet, stars, life, oceans, EVERYTHING. To argue otherwise is simply stagnant garbage.
When you argue against Evolution you argue against every scientist who ever contributed to the scientific record in any field, ever, wrong or right. You argue against the great Greek scientists and philosophers, the Arab and Maya astronomers, the great biologists like Pasteur, Salk and against logic. It is to deny the 'evolution' of human knowledge, which has been progressing for thousands of years. Cameron is an academic terrorist.
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umm, i guess you didn't hear
umm, i guess you didn't hear but the Kirk Cameron pamphlets were definitely jokes meant to point out the ridiculousness of creationist arguments. Maybe you should slow your roll before your indignation hurts your brain.
Whatever Kirk. No takebacks!
Whatever Kirk. No takebacks!
no they werent. cameron is a
no they werent. cameron is a creationist and his arguments are absurd. cameron presented the picture of the crocoduck at a thiest vs athiest debate as lack of evidence against evolution, just like it says in the article.
Article full of faleshoods
Leviticus 15:13--people should bathe and wash their clothes in running water to get rid of disease. So yes, the Bible does talk about microbes and viruses. Westerners didn't know about these precautions for nearly 3,000 years after Leviticus was written.
Isaiah 40:22--the earth is spherical, not flat.
Psalm 19:6--the sun moves through the heavens. This is not to say that the sun revolves around the earth, but that the sun moves through the entirety of space. Modern astronomy confirms that the sun is moving at about 600,000 mph through our arm of the galaxy.
If selecter and others on this site wish to debate the validity of creationism as a Christian theory, perhaps they should learn what Christianity really teaches first. "Deny the 'evolution' of knowledge?" These things were handed down in the Hebrew Scriptures before there was any way of discovering them through the scientific method.
It's also false to assume
It's also false to assume that a common sense connection between filth and disease means people 3000 years ago understood the concept of microscopic organisms, or that observable astronomical motion means they conceived of galaxies.
Though you are right about the Flat Earth thing. The misconception that people of the past believed in a flat Earth is an invention of 19th century English fiction and nowhere in the Bible does it say anything about our planet being flat.
And speaking from the perspective of those who study those Hebrew Scriptures, we never purported to hand down scientific fact through Torah, merely moral stories that our sages openly admitted weren't historically or scientifically accurate as many as 2500 years ago.
Re: Article full of faleshoods
WTF bible are you quoting? Obviously one that has been edited and updated simply to suit the times.
You just quoted Leviticus,
You just quoted Leviticus, the one with all the stuff about stoning adulterers and eating this or that and various other pieces of holy scripture that nobody adheres to anymore? Come on folks.