Saturday, July 01, 2006
WHY I AM NOT A CONSERVATIVE
A Continuing Series
I try not to pay much attention to the shrill talking heads on the right. But somehow, this evening, I surfed into discussion of Ann Coulter's latest book, and found this at National Review Online:The biggest chunk of the book goes where few conservatives so far have dared to tread. Of her eleven chapters, four comprise a sustained assault on liberalism’s holy of holies, Darwinism. She’s clear, well informed, and unmoved by any fear that someone may call her a “fundamentalist” for criticizing “Darwiniacs”:The level of ignorance and stupidity revealed here by both Coulter and her reviewer is mind-boggling. It's people like her that make me truly detest the leftists who have hijacked liberalism. At least in the world of politics, there is no home for people who value liberty and reason.Nice point.Darwiniacs love to cite…the [evolutionary] progress from the reptile’s multiboned jaw to the jaw of mammal-like reptiles with fewer bones, leading inexorably to the single-boned mammal jawbone with two bones moving to the ear. The jawbone metamorphosis didn’t prove evolution, but here at last was one small part of the fossil record that was not wildly inconsistent with the theory of evolution…. That’s ‘proof’ when it comes to the state religion [i.e. secularism]: For not disproving evolution, the vertebrate jawbone is said to prove evolution.
In the end, evolutionists’ only argument is contempt. The cultists know that if people were allowed to hear the arguments against evolution for just sixty seconds, all would be lost.
She exaggerates, but who cares? What is most valuable about Coulter is the trademarked contempt that she breathes forth. It’s why her books sell better than pretty much any other conservative’s do.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 7:41 PM
