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Slandering Darwin

Explore Kirk Cameron's role in spreading creationist misinformation linked to Darwin's Origin of Species and Hitler myths.

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If you read the skeptical blogs, then you probably already know that actor-turned-über-evangelist Kirk Cameron and the bananaman himself, creationist Ray Comfort, are going to hand out copies of Darwin's Origin of Species with an extra 50 pages claiming that Darwin led to Hitler, racism, misogyny, Windows Vista, cats and dogs living together, and Vegemite. This stuff is the usual pack of creationist misinformation, distorted facts, and out-and-out lies that you can find debunked almost everywhere on the web (like here, and here, and here). While I don't lean towards insults and yelling myself, I can understand the sentiment. But sometimes, I think gentle mockery is the best way to go. It's hard to imagine TMZ being understated, but in fact I like what they did here. They ended that article perfectly. Tip o' the banana peel to A.M.

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