American investigative journalist Charles Pierce’s 2009 Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free, depicting George Washington riding a dinosaur, is scathing raucous rant on the prevalence of ubiquitous idiocy and lunacy in America, largely surrounding creationism beliefs, using the Ken Ham’s 2007-launched Creation Museum (Ѻ) as a starting point, a discussion on how America as gone “marching backwards into the twenty-first century”, as Pierce puts it. [6] |
“An intellectually honest ‘Christian evolutionist’, a term which itself is an oxymoron, has to check their brains at the church door.”— William Provine (1988), “Scientists Face It! Science and Religion are Incompatible” [5]
“Behe is an IDiot. It’s the same thing as a creationist, only with a thin veneer of more lies coated over it in an attempt to come across as scientific.”— Anon (2011), blogspot post on the works of Michael Behe (Ѻ)
“I lost 5 IQ points reading Strobel's book, which was nothing more than mindless propaganda.”— Anon (2003), commentary on Lee Strobel’s The Case For Christ (Ѻ)
# | Creationist | Nickname | Reasoning/Description |
1. | (1952-) American biochemist | “an IDiot” (Ѻ) “Irreducibly stupid” (Ѻ) “Proven moron” (Ѻ) | Behe, who keeps a mousetrap in his office, uses what he calls a “mousetrap analogy” to argue that if “mechanical” parts of the trap were “designed” than so to must have been the “mechanical” parts of the cell; the designer of the former a person, the designer of the latter god. |
2. | (1953-) American amateur scientist | “Krazy Kent” (Ѻ) | “I was a high school science teacher for 15 years. I had become a Christian at age 16, and right away ran into the conflict between what I was taught in my science textbook and what I'm reading in the Bible, so I knew somebody was wrong.” — Kent Hoven (2000), Coast-to-Coast AM interview, Aug 2 (Ѻ) See: Monkey Girl (pg. 33); known as "Dr. Dino" because he said that dinosaurs fit on Noah's ark, because Noah only took the eggs with him. |
3. | (1950-) American plant geneticist | “Creatard idiot” (Ѻ) | Believes that people used to live to the age of 900 as stated in the Bible and argues that God gave us the genome and that the second law of thermodynamics can be found by plotting the descendents of Noah vs. life-span of each descendent. |
4. | (1918-2006) American civil engineer | “Morris the moron” (Ѻ) | |
5. | (1960-) American mathematician-theologian | “Dumbski Dembski” (Ѻ) | In EpicIdiot.com (Ѻ); stated, in his 2005 “A Reply to Henry Morris” that” (Ѻ), that “ID is part of God's general revelation," and "I've found that it opens the path for people to come to Christ" (Ѻ); see also: Monkey Girl (pgs. 288-89), 2007. |
6. | (1958-) Philosopher physicist | “moron Mr. Meyer” (Ѻ) | |
7. | (1947-) Indian-born American physician and new age author | “Blithering moron” (Ѻ) | |
8. | (1951-) Australian-born American philosopher | “Cuckoo Ken” (Ѻ) | In 1980, he spearheaded the formation of Answers in Genesis, in Australia, to promote creation science, centered around the premise of Biblical inerrancy in the Book of Genesis; in 2007, built the Creation Museum, Petersburg, Kentucky, showing humans playing with dinosaurs, all conceptualized as coming off Noah’s ark after the Biblical flood; in 2014, he debated Bill Nye the science guy, at the Creation Museum, the supreme loss by Nye being one of the goads to the initiation of Atheism Reviews. |
9. | (c.1937-) American anatomist | “American loon” (#270) | “Dr. David Menton, biologist, talks about the similarities (known as homology) in the skeletons of vertebrates. While the biology is similar in many ways, the differences between man and any of the animals are obvious. Most importantly, God created man in His image and with the ability to communicate with Him by reading the Bible and talking to God in prayer.” |
10. | (1941-) Russian-born American tumor immunologist | His Was Mona Lisa Created by Physicochemical Reactions Alone?, poses (pg. 33), that the trinity (father, son, and holy spirit) division of Christianity is representative of the science trinity or three “building blocks” of: protons, electrons, and radiation (or a soul); prior to this page 33, of his 91-page booklet, the margin notes: “stupid” (6), “what a mess” (1), “so stupid” (1), “retarted” (2), “very retarted” (5), “V.V.R” (1), abbreviation for “very very retarted”, and “jumped off the boat” (1), numbers indicated the number of times that epitaph is employed, are written in the Thims personal copy; the book cites Bernard Haisch (#13) and his The God Theory (2006) (Ѻ), but goes downhill from there. | |
11. | (1934-) | American loon (#421) Quantum kook (Ѻ) | His Taking the Quantum Leap (1981) uses quantum mechanics to argue that “God’s order appears to us as a principle of uncertainty”, that we are “free to choose”, but that we “cannot predict the results of our choices”; his dozen or so books thereafter venture off into new age kingdom, e.g. his The Spiritual Universe: How Quantum Mechanics Proves the Existence of the Soul (1996), argues that individual souls don't exist, but rather there is one cosmic soul which is mysteriously linked with the vacuum of space; American theoretical physicist Jack Sarfatti (1939-) claims (Ѻ) that he and Wolf started the “new age physics” movement with the publication of their 1975 book Space-Time and Beyond, whose work was cited in Gary Zukav's 1979 The Dancing Wu Li Masters: an Overview of the New Physics. (Ѻ) |
12. | (1945-) Canadian astrophysicist | “useful idiot” (Ѻ) | Runs Reasons.org; believes that while the earth is billions of years old, life did not appear by natural forces alone but that a supernatural agent formed different lifeforms in incremental (progressive) stages; asserts that the creation word "days" of Genesis, translated from the Hebrew word yom) are historic, distinct, and sequential, but not 24 hours in length nor equal in length, but rather interpretive to fit whatever scale one wants ; connected to Allan Sandage (#22) and Richard Smalley (#36). |
13. | (c.1940-) Austrian physician | | |
14. | (1943-) British-Australian biochemist | “Knowledgeable IDiot” (Ѻ) | His Evolution: a Theory in Crisis (1985) was inspiration to Michael Behe (#1). [2] |
15. | (c.1958-) | American loon #1981 (Ѻ) | “People should not be surprised when mass shootings occur, such as the one on the Blacksburg university campus on Monday. And at Virginia Tech, what do we have? We have a person who, unfortunately, thought that humans had no more value than cats and dogs — and unfortunately, I think, probably felt the same way about themselves. And so what happens? If we are nothing but thinking animals, [and] if you have excess people, then you can just put them in a bag, throw them in the river the way you would too many kittens or too many puppies.” — Grady McMurtry (2007) (Ѻ) a former evolutionist (20-years) and theistic evolutionist (1.5-years) and now a biblical creationist (35+ years) (Ѻ); has a BS in agriculture (forestry), and MS in in environmental science, and a DD in theology (Ѻ); tweets (2018) (Ѻ)(Ѻ) that he is a “distinguished biblical scientist” with an IQ of 218; believes (Ѻ) that dinosaurs and people lived together in the recent past; discusses in video (Ѻ) his belief in Noah’s flood. |
16. | (1942-) | “Loony IDiot” (Ѻ) | His 1994 PhD molecular and cellular biology, completed at UC Berkeley, was funded by Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, with the expressed aim to learn how to “destroy Darwinism”; some of which resulted in his Icons of Evolution (2000), wherein his main destruction technique is to attempt to discredit the Miller-Urey experiment by arguing that they used the wrong gases, therefore god is the correct solution; in 2004 was working at the Discovery Institute. [8] |
17. | (1976-) Norwegian geneticist | Your basic lightweight Internet quack "god head" sideliner; thinks that Jesus Christ was a real person; that the Bible discussion about the lake of fire have something to do with thermodynamics, etc.; popped up in Hmolpedia threads promoting views (c.2014). | |
18. | (c.1950-) | Astrophysicist and former editor of Astrophysical Journal; his The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What’s Behind it All (2006), is cited by Nikolas Dorfman (2008), employs double ontic opening arguments, e.g. “the Heisenberg principle mandates that all of space must be filled with zero-point energy” [hence] “living consciousness is the offspring of God, temporarily living in the realm of matter … we are immortal spiritual beings”. | |
19. | (1932-) Indian-born Pakistani organometallic chemist | “Babbling baboon” (Ѻ) | |
20. | (1939-) Sri Lankan-born British astrobiologist | A student and collaborator of Fred Hoyle whom with promoted panspermia; in 1974 they proposed the hypothesis that some dust in interstellar space was largely organic; in McLean vs Arkansas (1981), was the sole scientist who testified in defense of teaching creation science in public schools, alongside evolution, single scientist testifying for the defense of creationism, per the panspermia hypothesis of "the possibility of high intelligence in the universe and of many increasing levels of intelligence converging toward a god as an ideal limit." (Ѻ) | |
21. | (1949-) American philosopher | “well-spoken idiot” (Ѻ) | e.g. Boltzmann brains, thermodynamics arguments, relativity as ontic opening, etc. (Ѻ) |
22. | (1950-) American geneticist | “Lightweight dufus” (Ѻ) | Described by Paul Myers (2009) as a “lovable dufus” when it comes to issues of religion and some scientific principles (Ѻ); as head of NIH, banned US stem cell research because he believed that stem cells have souls put into them by god; as described in his 2006 book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, that after evolution had prepared a sufficiently advanced “brain”, that at some point God gifted humanity with the knowledge of good and evil, what he calls the “moral law”, with free will, and an immortal soul, and that some humans use their free will to break the moral law, leading to an estrangement from God, for which Jesus is the solution. [6] When pressed about the scientific details of his belief in soul and resurrection, according to Sam Harris (Ѻ), he deflects the question to consultation of English theoretical physicist and priest John Polkinghorne and English bishop N.T. Wright, whose work, according to Harris is “pure madness, a bizarre conflation, a word salad”. |
23. | (1926-2010) American astronomer | | |
24. | (1930-) English physicist and priest | | |
25. | (1920-) is an American mechanical engineer | The 1973 edition of his Fundamentals of Classical Thermodynamics, co-authored with American mechanical engineer Richard Sonntag (1933-2010), wherein he states that the second law is “man’s description of the prior and continuing work of a creator”, has become a citation classic by creationists, and idol for other creationist thermodynamicist authors, e.g. see: Gilbert Wedekind (#20) and his 2003 Spiritual Entropy (pg. 148). | |
26. | (1942-) American philosopher and mathematician | An agnostic leaning towards believer; author: The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions (2008); Berlinski, along with fellow Discovery Institute associates Michael Behe and William Dembski, tutored Ann Coulter on science and evolution for her book Godless: The Church of Liberalism (2006); Gives arguments against evolution (Ѻ) and atheism (Ѻ) | |
27. | (c.1942-) American physicist | “Creationist crank” (Ѻ) | Mailed his US senator Kirsten Gillibrand to American physicist Daniel Styer’s 2008 article “Entropy and Evolution” retracted from the American Journal of Physics, because of its “absurd” assertion that second law applies to biological evolution, hence contradicting the Bible ideology that the tendency to disorder views of the second law is proof of God's handwork in ordering human evolutionarily. |
28. | (c.1937-) | A 2008 “Moron of the month” at Creationist Idiocy blogspot (Ѻ); Quote (2005): “several people have said The Science of God (1997) is completely unconvincing [because] reason #3: the author is an idiot” (Ѻ); Quote (2011): “Today's crackpot is Gerald Schroeder. “ (Ѻ) | |
29. | (c.1939-) American biophysicist | | |
30. | (1946-) American thermodynamicist | A thermodynamics professor who believes that entropy is spiritual and wrote a book on this. | |
31. | (c.1958-) English physical chemist and priest | His his 2010 The Flaw in the Universe attempts to explain both sin and natural disaster in terms of the second law | |
32. | (1952-) American autodidact | “American loon” (#226) | He’s a crank who objects (Ѻ) to being called a “crank” or “crackpot”; promotes what he calls a “theory model”, a terminology redundancy, which he further confabulates into the acronym CTMU, which he repeats ad nauseum, to argue that the Boolean algebra work of George Boole explains everything, including God. His “An Introduction to Mathematical Metaphysics” (2017) (Ѻ) uses Sokal affair stylized language to argue for teleological-based “self-theories” (a violation of the principle of inertia) of the universe. |
33. | (1951-) Plasma physicist and engineer | Advocates for Christianity in debate (15:45); in 2013 debate with Lawrence Krauss and Michael Shermer, argues for miracles in physics terms (Ѻ). | |
34. | Emmett Williams (c.1935-) | Published: Physical Science for Christian Schools (1974), Chemistry for Christian Schools (1978), and edited Thermodynamics and the Development of the Order (1981). | |
35. | (1952-) Indian chemical engineer | Developed a concept (2007) called “genopsych” (or genpsy), a contraction of gene + psyche, which he believes is god or a part of god, inside of humans, that counters entropy, giving humans self-drive or self-motion, acting to evolve humans to their present form. | |
36. | (c.1944-) American mathematician | As stated in his “A Mathematician’s View of Evolution” (2000), began working with Michael Behe in 1997, suggesting that mathematics, physics, and computer science could facilitate his “irreducible complexity” theory, and cites people, such as George Simpson (“The History of Life”, 1960) and Francis Hitchens (The Neck of the Giraffe: Where Darwin Went Wrong, 1982) to argue that gaps exist in fossil records therefore god exists. | |
37. | (1933-) German-born American physicist | | |
38. | Robert E. Clark (1906-1984) British organic chemist | ||
39. | (1943-2005) American chemist and physicist | He "pulled a Neumann", so to say, see: Neumann on god, in his last two years of existence, while dying (dereacting) from Leukemia, joined the cause | |
40. | (1858-1941) French philosopher | Curator of thermodynamic-themed "creative evolution" theory (1907); not necessarily idiot, but embedded or rather riddled with coded error. | |
41. | (1953-) English chemist and molecular biochemist | A chemistry, molecular biochemistry, turned theologian; has debated Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens; and given talks such as “The Bankruptcy of Scientific Atheism” (2015). (Ѻ) | |
42. | (1939-) American physician and biochemist | Not necessarily idiot (actually the last of the sharp ontic opening theorists), but embedded or rather riddled with coded error. | |
43. | (1881-1995) French priest and physical chemist | Very sharp guy, whose theories boarder on reality, albeit slightly slanted towards religious patching. | |
44. | American religion reconciling chemist | Fairly sharp ideologies; his belief system consisted of the core belief that "God's willings are the immutable laws of nature". | |
45. | (1917-2003) Russian-born Belgian chemist and thermodynamicist | Prigogine’s theory, in short, is a thermodynamics-masquerading Trojan horse, with Henri Bergson’s creative evolution inside, thereby letting “spirituality” into the house of science. | |
46. | (1903-1957) Hungarian-born American | ||
A general range IQ scale, according to which "idiots" are classified as having an IQ of 20 in general intelligence; someone, scientists in particular, likewise, who makes belief system statements comprised of idiotic logic has a "religious IQ" in the 20-point range. |
A graph showing the trend lines for belief in the existence of god by scientists, both general or randomly polled US scientists (o) and ‘greater’ or National Academy of Science (NAS) member scientists (♦), based on the James Leuba (1912,1924) studies and the Edward Larson and Larry Witham (1996,1998) studies, of over 3,000+ American scientists combined. [3] |
“You clearly can be a scientist and have religious beliefs. But I don’t think you can be a real scientist in the deepest sense of the word because they are such alien categories of knowledge.”
Left: the Big Valley Creation Science Museum (Ѻ) opened in 2007 in Big Valley, Alberta, Canada, to promote "creation science" (or creationism science), i.e. idiocy, e.g. trying to explain why dinosaurs weren’t mentioned in the Bible. Right: The Book of Moron (Ѻ) one of the good books in the library of the creationist scientist. |
“Mathematics and dynamics fail us when we contemplate the earth, fitted for life but lifeless, and try to imagine the commencement of life upon it. This certainly did not take place by any action of chemistry, or electricity, or crystalline grouping of molecules under the influence of force, or by any possible kind of fortuitous concourse of atoms. We must pause, face to face with the mystery and miracle of creation of living creatures.”
“Religion is so absurd that it comes close to imbecility.”— Henry Mencken (1930), “Treatise on the Gods”
“Who exactly are these ‘smart people’ you speak of still advocating god? I happen to be on page 220 of Stuart Kauffman's 2008 Reinventing the Sacred, and I have written the terms: idiot, moron, stupid, garbage, retarded, etc., in the margins over several dozen times so far. The worst of all of them is Michael Behe, and Kauffman is not far off.”— Libb Thims (2010), post #9 reply to “Whoever wrote the ‘God’ section” thread, Nov 27 (Ѻ)“And you know, I get a lot of grief out there. People say, ‘How can you be a scientist and believe that god created the earth? Obviously, you know [they say] we developed from a puddle of promiscuous biochemicals. And if you believe in anything other than that, you’re a moron.’ I don’t criticize them. I say, ‘Can you tell me how something came from nothing?’ And of course they can’t. They say ‘well, we don’t understand everything.’ I say ‘ok, no problem’. ‘I’m just going to give you that there’s something’. And now you’re going to tell me there’s a big bang, and it comes into perfect order? So that we can predict seventy-years hence when a comet is coming, that kind of precision. And they say, ‘Well, yeah.’ And I say, ‘But don’t you also believe in entropy, that things move toward a state of disorganization?’ [they say] ‘Well yah’. [I say] ‘So how does that work? “And they say, ‘We don’t understand everything.’ And I said ‘I’m not sure you understand anything! ‘ But, I said, ‘I’m not going to be critical of you, not a problem. You’re entitled to believe what you believe, even though it requires a lot more faith than what I believe. But everybody believe what you want to believe.”— Ben Carson (2015), campaign speech (Ѻ) (V:0:08-1:42), Liberty University, Nov 11; in 6 Oct 2015 Carson commented (Ѻ), on The View, how some of the people he talked to about this evolution question included Nobel laureates; and in 2011, he was in a theist debate team (Ѻ) with Francis Collins against atheists Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett
A cartoon showing the idiocy of belief in miracles and intelligent design. |