During the weekend of August 26-27, 2006, Americans were given another opportunity to see “Crackpot Christianity” in action. All they had to do was tune in to The Coral Ridge Hour and watch its presentation of Darwin’s Deadly Legacy. I watched it Saturday evening and was respectively amused and appalled by the show’s infantilism and dishonesty. Although it would not persuade any educated American, the show’s dishonesty implies a staggering contempt for its intended audience — the untaught.
Knowing the audience, I expected such buffoonery and mendacity. As I demonstrated in an earlier article (Crackpot Christianity and America’s Current Moral Degeneration, at http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/Reviews/crackpot.html), the overwhelming majority of America’s Christians know next to nothing about the origins and actual composition — let alone the myriad contradictions — of the holy book they ostensibly revere. Why would they know anything more about the evolutionary biology so many of them despise?
