Fundamentalist Christianity would not exist without the theory of evolution by natural selection.
By
D'Archangel
on March 09, 2007
I refer here to the American political movement with this name, which sprang up in 1919 in response to the wide acceptance the theory had gained.
D'A
[NB: I originally worded this as "[...] without evolution.", but that's amusingly trivial. Especially when my point was about American history.]
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I think those nutjobs would have made it up anyway. It's about money and control, not about evolution.
nah; they'd all be objectivists.