Posted by John Lynch on June 14, 2006 Apparently more than Dembski helped Coulter with her attack on evolution:
“I couldn’t have written about evolution without the generous tutoring of Michael Behe, Devid Berlinski, and William Dembski”
Dembski, Behe & Berlinski. It’s not looking good for the three amigos.
More like the three stooges.
A Three Stooges made up solely of Joe Bessers.
More like the three stooges.
I skipped watching Ms. Coulter on The Tonight Show but, coincidentally, The Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special was on tonight and couldn’t pass up some good old fashioned slapstick. I doubt anyone will be reading Godless in 2081.
It’s funny to us that she uses those three as some sort of proof of the viability of the claims she makes, but on the right-wing-wacko and sitting on the fence uneducated groups, that is actually some sort of bizarro world badge of honor. Beaten over the head with the techno-filibuster arguments of Coulter, Behe, Dembski et al many of the easily persuaded are … well… easily persuaded by the fancy speak and important sounding phrases of the ID / anti-evolution horde that she repeats in her books / appearances. Seeing MAnn Coulter’s emaciated face on the major news and entertainment outlets is a real problem no matter what her true motivations are (fame and money). Her type of hate filled ignorance is exactly what a large portion of the population feeds on. It’s been seen over and over in the past how appealing to the easily manipulated crowd emotions of hate, intolerance and ridicule, can move an under-educated and self-perceived persecuted group into the mainstream and possible the majority.
She may seem like funny (yet disturbing) spewer, but the more she gets air time the less ridiculous she will start to sound, and then the needle moves further to her extreme.
June 14, 2006