Boy, when David Barton starts spewing the crazy there seems to be almost nothing too stupid or bizarre for him to say. Now he says that schools aren’t teaching history correctly and it’s all the fault of the theory of evolution. Try to follow this “logic”:
We’ve taken the evolution thing and kept it as a science debate, and it’s not. Evolution [versus] creation is not a science, it is a worldview. If I take evolution and say you know, man’s always evolving, moving forward, then I’ve got to say well, then we need a Constitution that evolves and moves forward with us. And so we get a living Constitution whereby who cares what the Constitution says, here’s what we think about Obamacare or gay marriage or anything else.
If I take and apply [the evolutionary worldview] to history, I’d have to say that in public schools, history is the most worthless subject there is if you believe evolution because, if we are evolving, what can we learn from two hundred years ago? My gosh, those guys didn’t even have internet back then! They rode horses; let’s get up with the real century. And so under that worldview of evolution, history has got to be the first casualty. And it is, quite frankly.
Wow. That may be a world record for the most fallacies packed into that small a space.
