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Today must be the day for moonbat attacks on evolution. Following Deepak Chopra’s post (discussed below) I came across this attack on evolution which goes a step further. Not only does it oppose the teaching of evolution in the schools, it bases this on the argument that evolution is all just a Jewish plot. This off the wall theory is even being distributed by a Republican legislator:

The Anti-Defamation League is calling on state Rep. Ben Bridges to apologize for a memo distributed under his name that says the teaching of evolution should be banned in public schools because it is a religious deception stemming from an ancient Jewish sect.

Bridges (R-Cleveland) denies having anything to do with the memo. But one of his constituents said he wrote the memo with Bridges’ approval before it was recently distributed to lawmakers in several states, including Texas, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

“Indisputable evidence — long hidden but now available to everyone — demonstrates conclusively that so-called ‘secular evolution science’ is the Big-Bang 15-billion-year alternate ‘creation scenario’ of the Pharisee Religion,” the memo says. “This scenario is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic ‘holy book’ Kabbala dating back at least two millennia.”

The memo calls on lawmakers to introduce legislation that would end the teaching of evolution in public schools because it is “a deception that is causing incalculable harm to every student and every truth-loving citizen.”

It also directs readers to a Web site www.fixedearth.com, which includes model legislation that calls the Kabbala “a mystic, anti-Christ ‘holy book’ of the Pharisee Sect of Judaism.” The Web site also declares “the earth is not rotating … nor is it going around the sun.”

I’ve sometimes compared creationists (or in this case cretins) to flat earthers. That comparison seems less of an exaggeration after reading this belief that the earth is not rotating or going around the sun.

As for evolution being the work of a mystical Jewish group, they got the details a bit wrong. Evolution comes from a group which is mysterious and unknown to these people. That group is known as “scientists” and while this group contains many Jews it is also open to all other religions.