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January 10, 2008

I'll Be A Monkey's Dutch Uncle!

The ID movement is farther off target than I thought

Forget about stripping Darwin's Origin Of Species from schoolroom shelves.

Darwincreation2_4The Discovery Institute must first campaign to clear The Disney Channel  of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, to protect America's schoolchildren from the vicious theories of Washington Irving, AKA Diedrich Knickerbocker, the Godless Whig reprobate and War Of 1812 draft-dodger who unleashed on the young Republic:

“…the startling conjecture of Buffon, Helvetius, and [Erasmus] Darwin, so highly honorable to mankind, and peculiarly complementary to the French nation, that the whole human species are accidentally descended from a remarkable family of monkies!”

                                                  --  A History of New-York
                 From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty
     1809

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