Oh for the love of Ganymede, this can't be real:
"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,” reads the letter that went out under [Republican Georgia State House Rep. Ben] Bridges' name. “This scenario is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic ‘holy book’ Kabbala dating back at least two millennia.” …
The letter goes on to say directs readers to a Web site that says “the earth is not rotating … nor is it going around the sun.”
I knew that there were people like fixedearth.com out there, but I always assumed they were pretty far out there. I didn't think they could get elected.
There are people holding public office, making important decisions that affect the lives of thousands of constituents, who believe that this —
— is not a photograph of Jupiter and its four largest moons but is, instead, the handiwork of an ancient Copernican/Darwinian plot, cooked up by the Jews, to undermine the Bible and …
OK. Wait. I'm going to need to process this some more. I'm going to have to, yet again, recalibrate what I think of as "over the top" caricatures of goofball illiterate literalist Republicans. If Josh's story is true, if this isn't a parody, then I'm not sure parody even remains a possibility.
We'll come back to this.
Update: Initially, this post attributed a quote from fixedearth.com to Bridges' memo. That's corrected. Here is the memo itself, five out of six paragraphs of which exist only to direct people to Marshall Hall's anti-Copernicus/Darwin/Semitic Web site. (Thanks Raka for the fix.)
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