This is follow-up to what we wrote a month ago: The Madness of Mike Fair, which wasn’t the first time we’ve written about that crazed state legislator.
Today’s episode was written by the creationist himself. It appears in the Greenville News, a Gannett newspaper located in Greenville, South Carolina, where we read Bias for evolution is protected. If there’s a comments section, we don’t see it.
As with Fair’s earlier article that we wrote about, he begins by describing — in the most innocuous terms — his recent failed creationism crusade, in which he attempted to corrupt the state’s Education Oversight Committee (the EOC) with the pollution of creationism. He says:
Recently, the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee suggested a minor language improvement to the evolution standard and the State Board of Education rejected the request.
You know all that. Here are some excerpts from the rest of his maniacal manifesto, with bold font added by us:
[A]s a Christian, my faith becomes the focus if evolution is the subject. Facts are notwithstanding. However, my legislative record reveals promoting policy and supporting legislation that helps inmates, women, children, etc. A Christian bias is apparently OK for these issues.
Facts notwithstanding. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Let’s read on:
Evolution is another matter. Do I believe evolution occurs. Certainly. Evolution means change and it is observable in that sense. There are big dogs and little dogs but big or little dogs are all still dogs. Change occurred but change cannot occur outside the phylum to which dogs belong. Do you really believe that last statement is violative of the establishment clause? Neither do I.
Amazing. Fair’s concept of the micro-macro mambo allows changes within a phylum. Dogs, which are Chordates, can presumably morph into any other animal with a central nerve cord — fish, bird, frog, etc.
Then the genius repeats his grotesquely garbled grasp of the Constitution, which is based on quote-mining Noah Webster. We’ve seen him do that before — see Mike Fair: Confessions of a Creationist Idiot. And he’s not done making a fool of himself yet:
I believe the principles established by the Founders are being removed from the public square by a series of narrow decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. I am bothered that the Supreme Court has changed the Constitution by a series of 5-4 votes which is clearly outside the methods duly established by the U.S. Constitution to change our Constitution. For example, the courts defined science so as to exclude any theory or information not contained in naturalism — also known as Darwin’s theory of Evolution.
This is non-stop insanity. Why hasn’t that man been institutionalized? Here’s more:
The judicial system made those decisions. Intelligence is effectively banned by the courts and intelligence is often absent in the courts!
He’s confusing the mystical substance the Discoveroids call “intelligence” — see Phlogiston, Vitalism, and Information — with the customary meaning of the word. Moving along:
Another court case ruled “Intelligent Design” violated the Establishment Clause and was therefore ruled unconstitutional. “Intelligent Design” is an explanation for the cause for specified complexity. It is not a theological construct. It is hard for me to believe that “intelligence” has been ruled unconstitutional in the public schools!
The man is hopelessly stupid. Another excerpt:
We have a well-defined process to amend our Constitution that guarantees extensive debate but many of the principles held dear by Americans are being cast aside by judicial activism.
The moron thinks we need an amendment specifically referring to creationism. One final excerpt:
We all are here for a purpose and Darwin’s random causes and gradualism simply do not fit with the facts and discoveries.
Yes, he’s demented, and his condition seems incurable; nevertheless, he’s the tip of the Discoveroids’ spear in South Carolina.
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His total misunderstanding of phyla reminds me of Banana Comfort and his amazing reply (to the evolution of bacteria) checkmate of “it’s still a bacteria” rather ignored the fact that bacteria have their own kingdom (and it’s not in heaven).
At least this cheers me up in as much as inept most UK politicians are, they are not this bonkers.
Well he is right about ….
Intelligence is effectively banned by the courts and intelligence is often absent in the courts!……
After all they did rule stupidly on the HobbyLobby BS.
Time to break out Inigo Montoya’s take on “Intelligence” for Mike Fair:
Our Curmudgeon observes of Mike Fair: “Yes, he’s demented, and his condition seems incurable; nevertheless, he’s the tip of the Discoveroids’ spear in South Carolina.”
Welcome to today’s GOP!
Crummy says: “… he’s the tip of the Discoveroids’ spear in South Carolina”. At least it’s not a sharp spear!
All higher categories above the species level are human artifacts which we change and redefine to, as best we can, communicate our understanding of phylogenetic relationships. Creationists may not understand this.
There is a comment section, SC, but it’s the facebook-connected type. You can read the comments, but to make a comment yourself you have to have a facebook account.
I am surprised he didn’t use baramin instead of phylum.
I once tried to write a story about what would happen in America if an amendment making it illegal to “teach or promulgate any doctrine denying the truth of the Holy Bible, as written” passed Let’s just say it wasn’t pretty.
Now, ID’ers will say they don’t want to forbid the teaching of evolution. They have to, since the Supreme Court’s 1968 decision in Epperson v. Arkansas declared outright anti-evolution laws unconstitutional. But if they could amend the Constitution to overrule the Court, they’d do it. Don’t think for a moment they aren’t scheming toward that end even now. And in the meantime, they’ll do everything in their power to push creationism into the public schools while bullying textbook publishers into watering down or eliminating their coverage of evolution. (Before her retirement, my aunt was in the publishing business and worked for several major publishers; she saw some of that.)
But is it a scientific one? Not really. And as for its not being theological, considering how quickly God comes up in conversations with these people, they really must think the rest of us are suckers if they expect us to buy that.
Hey, Curmy, this might interest you some. Or maybe not.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141029141216.htm
Mike Fair knows exactly what ID is for. He’s just propagandizing – telling the big lie until it becomes the accepted truth.
He clearly doesn’t have a clue about real science though, facts notwithstanding.
Justin says: “Hey, Curmy, this might interest you some.”
I read about it a day or so ago, and briefly considered blogging about it, but decided against it. It’s good research, but we’re not there yet.
Can we please have some sort of basic science literacy test for anyone running for public office?
SC:
The start of the Wikipedia article you linked to is perhaps not as clearly written as it might be
The words “a hollow dorsal nerve cord” aren’t there as an elucidation of “notochord”, but as a separate item in the list of features.
@anevilmeme
Who will bell the cat? Who will guard the guardians? What politicians will vote to disqualify themselves from office?
How about guaranteeing basic education, not only in science, but in general reasoning, history, etc. to the US population?
What politicians will make an appeal to reason a necessity for election?
Mike Fair makes $174K a year? Plus gold plated benefits and an extremely generous retirement package? If he was not in Congress he would be pumping gas in backwoods gas station. He is clearly not smart enough to be a mechanic (those guys have to be smarter every year). Something is wrong in the US.
Techreseller, Mike Fair is in his state’s legislature, not Congress.