David Menton: "The Eyes Have Parts, Therefore JESUS DID IT!!"

David Menton, who is a boil on the butt of Wash U back in St. Louis, has really sodomized Darwin today, so, bend over, Buttercup.

His article, "The Seeing Eye," would have earned a failing mark in my freshman writing class for improper use of sources. Nice fucking scholar.

His article starts:

The Bible tells us that God’s eternal power and divine nature are clearly seen in the things that He has made. One of the most obvious displays of His creative power is the human eye.

Even Charles Darwin conceded that “to suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.”

Nonetheless, having abandoned his Christianity, Darwin was obliged to appeal to the “absurd” to account for the origin of the eye by random change and natural selection.

Menton, you suck, you quote-mining turd-blossom. Seriously, can't Wash U take action against him for academic dishonesty (if not for staggering incompetency in the biological sciences)? Have they no standards?

Here's the full quote, which the liar-for-Jesus (wasn't their a commandment or something?), omits to use (even though he is citing--and clearly implies that he has read--the book and is therefore deliberately making a decision to omit the rest of the statement):

"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of Spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei ["the voice of the people = the voice of God "], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certain the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, should not be considered as subversive of the theory."

This is your poster boy, Ham? This feeble non-scholar? Oh, well. He can always publish in ARJ, I suppose.

HJ