06.29.06
Secondary Addiction
Talk.reason takes on Coulter, on evolution. Tackling Coulter wouldn’t be much of problem for Talk.reason, but unfortunately even a slapdash tour of secondary sources puts the likes of Coulter one step ahead of the ‘paradigmatically deprived’ Darwinians.
One third of Ann Coulter’s latest bestseller, “Godless: The Church of Liberalism,” is devoted to raking “Darwiniac cultists” over the coals for promoting what she is certain is the false science of evolution. Unfortunately her roasting process was hampered by the fact that she forgot to get her fire lit first. Compulsively addicted to secondary sources, Coulter fails to comprehend even those, and exhibits consistent laziness when it comes to checking whether her meagre tinder could ever ignite. In the first part of a series that will examine all the antievolutionary assertions in her book, James Downard explores how Coulter fumbles issues relating to Michael Behe’s Irreducible Complexity claims.
published: Jun 29, 2006