I just got a long email from Human Events which is marketing (in the manner of a self-improvement program) a how-to course which promises to turn 97 pound intellectual weaklings into Charles Atlases ready to do battle against the Great Satan Charles Darwin, by discrediting and debunking evolution.
While I get a lot of annoying email, I ignore most of it, and normally I wouldn’t have bothered blogging about this one, but the timing — right after the controversy over Ben Stein’s Darwin-inspired-the Holocaust thesis — made me wonder about something, and I don’t know quite how to put it.
It’s one thing to believe in Intelligent Design, and I certainly think it’s fair to take issue with elitists who think they’re entitled to stifle skepticism and dissent. But mass marketing a systematic attack on Darwin during political campaign season? Whatever can these people be thinking?
Is it possible that the conservative movement really does want to self-destruct?
Anyway, the anti-evolution self-improvement program Human Events is pitching is called “Tear Apart the “Theory” of Evolution — And Win Every Debate, Every Time,” and here’s the introductory description:

Show any Skeptic that Evolution is Based on Myths,
Falsehoods and Outrageous Lies – In 5 Minutes or Less!
Dear Friend,
I’m fed up with Darwin…
When evolution supporters tried to make me feel foolish for believing in God, I decided to do something about it.
Evolution is not proven fact. Every one of their claims can be torn to shreds. All you need are the missing pieces. Today, I’ll show you what they are.
Within minutes, you’ll:

• Quickly take down self-righteous atheists…

• Easily and accurately defend God’s role as our Creator…

• Send hardened skeptics into a state of confusion…

• Expose the “theory” of evolution and leave scientists with their mouths hanging open…

My name is Jeffrey Howard. If you ever challenged someone on evolution, I have great news.
By the time you read to the end of this letter, you’ll have everything you need to take on the skeptics and win. You’ll never be at a loss for words. The whole evolution debate will be right in your pocket.
Use it anytime, anywhere… It’s much easier than you think. Once you get the real story, it takes less than 5 minutes!

Got the general idea? I copied and pasted the html of the email below for anyone who wants to learn more.
[NOTE: All hot links and payment links have been removed or modified.]
While I have no problem defending this nonsense on the basis of free speech, I’m not sure that encouraging the growth of an organized movement against evolution is in the best interest of the fractured conservative movement.
I’m worried not only that no good will come of this, but that if it really spreads, it could cause a great deal of harm to the Republican Party. Not only will it cause incredible fractiousness, but I can think of no better way for the Democrats to whip up support and rally the troops than to have a colorable claim that the GOP is “against evolution.” I realize that many on the left already think the Republicans are a bunch of morons but is it really necessary for a leading conservative journal to go out of its way to supply then with apparent proof?
Were I a Democratic activist, I’d be absolutely delighted.

From:Human Events
Date: 2008/05/01 Thu AM 10:13:20 CDT
To: ERIC SCHEIE
Subject: Disprove Evolution in 5 Minutes or Less…

Below please find a special message from one of our advertisers, Twin Angels Publishing. From time to time, we receive opportunities we believe you as a valued customer may want to know about. Please note that the following message does not necessarily reflect the editorial positions of Human Events.

Tear Apart the
“Theory” of Evolution
And Win Every
Debate, Every Time…

Show any Skeptic that
Evolution is Based on Myths,
Falsehoods
and Outrageous Lies – In 5 Minutes or
Less!

Dear Friend,

I’m fed up with Darwin…

When evolution supporters tried to make me
feel foolish for believing in God, I decided to do something
about it.

Evolution is not proven fact. Every one
of their claims can be torn to shreds. All you need are the
missing pieces. Today, I’ll show you what they are.

Within minutes, you’ll:

• Quickly take down self-righteous atheists…

• Easily and accurately defend God’s role as our Creator…
  

• Send hardened skeptics into a state of confusion…
  

• Expose the “theory” of evolution and leave scientists
  with their mouths hanging open…

My name is Jeffrey Howard. If you ever
challenged someone on evolution, I have great news.

By the time you read to the end of this
letter, you’ll have everything you need to take on the
skeptics and win. You’ll never be at a loss for words. The
whole evolution debate will be right in your pocket.

Use it anytime, anywhere… It’s much
easier than you think. Once you get the real story, it takes
less than 5 minutes!

How a Sunday Morning
Sermon Changed My Life Forever…

A few years ago, I joined some friends for
brunch after church. At the table was the husband of a friend.
Let’s call him, “Tom.”

Tom is not a Christian and was not at church
with us. But he showed up for the sake of being social. At
first, I thought nothing of it. But when I saw his reaction to
our conversation, I knew trouble was brewing.

The sermon that morning was from the book of
Genesis. Our pastor has a wonderful way of telling the story
of Creation. And like many folks do, we got together after
church to share our thoughts about it over coffee.

We weren’t talking 5 minutes before this man’s
face turned to ash. Without moving a single muscle he said,
“The idea that God created the world is childish…
Educated men don’t believe in myth and fantasy.”

We were all stunned. He was usually tolerant.
But there he was… trying to make us feel ignorant for
believing in God’s power to create this marvelous world we
live in.

For the next hour and a half, I went
head-to-head with the theory of evolution. But I lost.

I just didn’t know how to go up against his
arguments. Don’t get me wrong: My knowledge of the Bible is
better than most. And my faith is unshakable.

But in that moment, I realized I couldn’t
defend God’s place in our lives because I didn’t know a thing
about this “theory” of evolution.  

After I got home, I felt as if I had somehow
let God down. I thought for sure that if I just shared my
faith and His teachings, Tom would naturally “get it.” I was
wrong…

That’s when everything changed.

The very next day, I decided to do something
about it. If I wanted to win, I needed to challenge him on his
own turf. And that meant learning everything I could about
evolution.

For months, I searched the Internet… went to
the library… bought books from Amazon.com… talked to
teachers, preachers and university professors… all in the
hopes of better defending our Faith.

And let me tell you something…

What I Discovered about
Evolution
Gave Me the Shock of My
Life  

The theory of evolution is full of holes. And
I’m not talking about minor differences of opinion. I’m
talking about huge, gaping holes you could drive a truck
through.

But here’s the problem: We never challenge
it.

Defending God’s Word is a great first step.
But if you don’t poke holes in the theory of evolution itself,
they’ll NEVER get it.

Charles Darwin in 1881

And that’s bad news… All you have to do is
open a newspaper to know the scientists are winning.

It all started in 1859, when Charles Darwin
published his first book on evolution. Almost

immediately, scientists, atheists and
university types grabbed the idea and promoted the heck out of
it.

Once they figured out evolution was their
golden opportunity to get rid of God, there was no stopping
them. They pushed evolution to the point of becoming “official
policy” without ever letting you know it would crumble if
exposed to the light of day.

So that’s what I did: I exposed it. And boy
did it crumble…

 

Here are Just a Few
Examples of what I Found

Darwin himself said that future scientists
would find fossils of “transitional forms.” Here’s what he
meant: If fish really evolved into animals, you would find
fossils of creatures that

Fossil: This is a shrimp fossil found in Lebanon. These pictures tell scientists what fish and animals looked like long ago.

were half-fish, half-animal. This would show
that one species was making a transition into another.

So far, no transitional forms have ever
been discovered! And of course, no transitional creature
exists today. Let’s be honest: Have you ever gone to the zoo
and seen a cross between a fish and an animal? Or a half-man,
half-monkey?

All the creatures living on this planet are
perfectly formed. There is no record of any animal,
fish, beast or creature EVER turning into a different
species.

In fact, the real fossil record shows almost
no change. That means many of the creatures on this Earth have
not changed since the beginning of time.

Here’s something else you won’t read in the
newspaper: Hundreds of scientists and university professors
are coming out against evolution.
This should be front-page news. But you’ll never hear about it
in the media.

Check out what some of them are saying about
these missing fossils:

â?¢ Professor Steven J. Gould, Harvard
University: “The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the
fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.”

Translation: Dr.
Gould is a little too kind. The number of transitional forms
is ZERO.

â?¢ Dr. Colin Patterson, British Museum of
Natural History: “I will lay it on the line – there is not one
such fossil for which one could make a watertight
argument.”

Translation: There’s
simply no hard evidence for evolution.

â?¢ Dr. Gareth J. Nelson, American Museum of
Natural History: “It is a mistake to believe that even one
fossil species… can be demonstrated to have been ancestral to
another.”

Translation:
Darwin’s theory doesn’t have a leg to stand on…

You Think That’s
Something? Check This Out…

At some point in our history, thousands of new
creatures suddenly appeared. And the scientists
actually agree on this. This one fact is enough to put the
“theory” of evolution to rest forever.

Think about it… Evolution says that new forms
of life never appear suddenly. They tell us

The Trilobite: This complex creature suddenly appeared with no ancestors to evolve from…

new species evolve slowly over “millions of
years.” They claim that small mutations occur to a single
species and that over time, a new creature is born.

If that’s true, then how can thousands of new
creatures come to life all at once – like they did during this
one period of history?

Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?

Their own scientific discoveries do a nice job
of disproving evolution. Yet these very same scientists go on
TV and tell us that evolution is “tested and proven.”

It only goes to show: Scientists will
believe ANYTHING if the alternative is admitting that God
created the world!

When you take God out of His own Creation,
crazy things start to happen… You get “respected” scientists
saying that fish can sprout legs and monkeys can turn into
men.

But when you look under the hood, there’s NO
PROOF whatsoever.

Evolution May be the
Greatest Hoax in Human History

Let me tell you… All of this really got me
worked up. These people are deceiving us at God’s
expense. 

Even worse, they’re teaching this stuff to our
children. Millions of kids are growing up thinking we live in
a godless, mechanical world that has no meaning at all.

In spite of many brave parents, schools around
the country keep evolution firmly in place – making it the
only explanation our kids get. And I don’t have to tell you
how difficult that makes it to raise kids with real Christian
values.

Left unchecked, evolution will eventually rob
you of prayer and your personal relationship with God.

Think about this for a moment: Taking God out
of His creation means prayer and communication with God
becomes a fairy tale – an impossibility.

Darwin believed prayer and the belief in God
comes from an animal’s instinct to feel awe or inspiration
from things it doesn’t understand. Scientists now call this
“magical thinking.”

Here’s an example: If a monkey sees a leaf
blowing in the wind, it may think the leaf has magical powers
because it doesn’t know the wind is giving it lift and
motion. 

Scientists and atheists believe prayer and
your faith in God is just a logical next step in the evolution
of the “magical thinking” they find in apes and monkeys.

They’re taking us for fools.

And for the most part, we’re not doing
anything about it. But if you learn a thing or two about their
“theory,” you can win every debate, every time.

Remember Tom… the guy at the restaurant who
embarrassed me in front of my friends? I saw him again, two
years later. Only this time things were different.

After all my research, he didn’t stand a
chance. He folded like a house of cards.

In just a second, I’ll tell you the rest of
the story… First, I want to tell you how I sent him packing.

Here’s the key: The average person on the
street accepts evolution without understanding it.

They can tell you that it’s “proven”… and
that’s about it. If they’ve done their homework, maybe they
can tell you that so-and-so did an experiment… or so-and-so
wrote a book…

But if you know the missing pieces, you can
shoot down every one of their arguments – every time.
And because they don’t really understand what they’re
defending, they suddenly fall silent when they can’t fire off
a come back.

They get shell-shocked when they come up
against a Christian who knows more about evolution than they
do.

In an ideal world, you should be able to
defend God’s Creation with the Bible alone. But we live in
dark times.

Scientists, atheists and all those university
types will ALWAYS reject the Bible. It doesn’t matter how many
passages you quote – they’ll ALWAYS tell you that God is a
fantasy.
 
But if you go after their beloved
“theory” of evolution – and show them beyond a shadow of a
doubt that it’s based on a bunch of guesswork, forgeries and
outright lies, then congratulations…

You just beat them at their own
game.

It’s a great feeling. To see them with their
mouths hanging open… A look of shock on their faces… Not
knowing what to say… Feeling confused and embarrassed…

And here’s the best part:

Defeating Evolution
Couldn’t Be Easier…

After my research I started telling my friends
about what I’d found. Like me, they were amazed evolution
could be crushed so quickly and easily.

They started to tell their friends and the
whole thing started to snow ball. In no time at all, our
Sunday morning coffee sessions turned into a small community
of Christians devoted to exposing the myths of evolution.

After a few months, I started getting phone
calls from people I didn’t even know – asking me to tell them
about the discoveries I made.

As the momentum started to build, my Sunday
morning “crew” started nudging me to write this stuff down. I
hesitated at first, but realized that it might help other
folks defend God’s place in our lives.

With that in mind, I sat down at the computer
and started to type.

I sent out a few drafts by e-mail and the
feedback was immediate: These missing pieces were so hot; they
were sparking debate and knocking skeptics on their heels.

Now YOU Can
Expose Evolution…
With the Same Amazing
Results!

I put all the missing pieces into a 55-page
e-book called Disprove Darwin In 5 Minutes or
Less… In it, I give you simple and effective
ways to knock down and tear apart the theory of evolution.

But don’t worry: It’s not a boring textbook.
It’s easy to read and everything is set up in a way that’s
easy to remember and easy to refer back to…

I stripped down and demystified evolution so
anyone can understand it. I took out all the jargon and all
the non-sense and cut right to the chase.

It’s kind of like a handbook that tells you
how to counter every argument or piece of “proof” they can
throw at you. Within it minutes of opening it you can start
using this high-powered ammunition to blow apart any argument,
any time…

Even better, I show you how
to fight evolution. I don’t just give you
facts and stories; I give you the strategies the scientists
are using to fight against us – and how to counter them.

Knowing How to Fight is
the Key to Winning

Once you know what they’re up to, you can pull
the rug right out from under them – no matter what they throw
at you.

I reveal the myths, falsehoods – and in some
cases – the outright lies that have propped up the “theory” of
evolution for nearly 150 years.

You’ll get the simple and easy-to-apply
strategies that kick the skeptics to the curb. I’ll even
show you my “rapid fire” take down that puts every ivy-league
evolution lover up against the wall in 5 minutes or less.

Here’s just a quick feel for what you’ll get a
hold of:

• Why evolution is really just a cult based on false
  assumptions – NOT FACTS.

• The truth behind the missing fossils and the physical
  evidence that clearly disproves evolution.

• How Stalin, Marx and Hitler used evolution to justify
  their brutality and drive for world domination.

• The critical discovery Darwin predicted future
  scientists would have to make to prove evolution. (HINT: It
  didn’t happen!)

• How scientists shamelessly cover up Darwin’s failures to
  prop up his un-provable theory.

• The museum in San Francisco that fabricated evidence to
  support evolution. (This is happening all over the country!)
  

• How school textbooks get away with using known fakes and
  forgeries to teach the lie of evolution.

• Discover the time period in our past that produced
  thousands of new life forms all at once – with no
  “evolutionary ancestors” before them.

• Meet the courageous microbiologist who exposed the fraud
  behind evolution – only to get sacked by the media.

• Evolution has been observed while it’s happening, right?
  Wrong! Hear the stunning admission from one of
  science’s most vocal evolution supporters.

• How evolution poisons your mind – and your soul – by
  promoting chaos, depression and violence.

• Learn the real story behind the dinosaurs and why these
  giant creatures crush the theory of evolution.

• MORE MISSING LINKS: Why there’s almost no research by
  evolutionists to explain evolution on a molecular and
  biochemical level.

• How science has rearranged the evolution argument to
  make it sound like a lack of evidence is the
  evidence.

• PLUS: Why scientists have to throw out their beloved
  “scientific method” in order to embrace evolution – and why
  they’re fighting like mad to keep you from finding out…
  

Play Your Part in
Defending God’s Role as Our Creator

When you’re armed with the documented,
undeniable evidence you’ll find in Disprove Darwin
In 5 Minutes or Less… you’ll have everything you
need to take on evolution and win. So don’t be surprised when
your friends ask you for the details.

Just days after getting it, people will start
coming to you for answers. I should know: It happened to me.
At first, I was a little nervous about suddenly being the
center of attention.

But when I saw the smile on my pastor’s face –
and felt the gratitude of my friends and congregation – I knew
I was doing the right thing.

After all, it’s our duty as Christians to
defend our Faith. And honoring God as our Father and Creator
is at the core of everything we believe. Without it,
everything else falters: Prayer… Devotion… Salvation…

Take away God as our Creator and it all
vanishes.

By arming yourself with the truth about
evolution, you’ll expose the lies and set people straight.

That’s Exactly what
Happened to Tom…

Six months after finishing my research, I saw
Tom in the parking lot of our local grocery store. He
recognized me right away. I approached him and asked him if he
remembered our lively debate. He cracked a smile so I told him
I’d been doing some reading on evolution.

He raised an eyebrow and gave me a smirk,
like, “Oh, please… this nutty Bible-thumper thinks he
knows something about evolution…”

That’s when something remarkable happened. In
less than 5 minutes I cut down every “solid” argument for
evolution he had ever heard of… And here’s the best part:

He just stood there with his mouth hanging
open. 

He didn’t know what to say or what to do… To
this day, I don’t know what shocked him more: Watching his
cherished beliefs go down in flames or realizing I knew what I
was talking about.

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Yours in Faith,

Jeffrey Howard