Review of D. James Kennedy Propaganda & PIGDID

Here I present a fairly-comprehensive review of the D. James Kennedy flap over Darwin's Deadly Legacy: The Chilling Impact of Darwin's Theory of Evolution --

1. Raw Story
2. PZ Myers: Et tu, Francis Collins?
   
3. Pandagon: D. James Kennedy’s ’special’ on Darwin and Hitler
4. WorldNutsDaily Response: Darwin-Hitler connection sparks attacks (please note caption under still, sans ?)
5. Ed Brayton: Exposes the idiocy in the WorldNutsDaily article
   
6. The Anti-Defamation League Responds
   
7. WorldNutsDaily Again: ADL joins in criticism of evolution expose (note this time the ? under the picture)
8. PZ Myers: D. James Kennedy -- Busted! (note Francis Collins' name was removed from a program flier)
9. Ed Brayton: Kennedy, Hitler, Weikart and the ADL
10. PZ Myers: Holocaust ≠ natural selection
    (sad that you have to clarify to some slower people that military-enforced genocide is not NATURAL selection, but artificial selection)
    
11. PZ Myers: Now Behe puts D. James Kennedy at arms length
12. Ed Brayton: D. James Kennedy, Darwin and Hitler
13. Ed Brayton: Producer Defends Darwin/Hitler Special (response to Agape Press)
14. PZ Myers: Review of the just-aired show
15. Ed Brayton: Review, Ed points to passages in Hitler's Mein Kampf which indicate the Führer held Creationist sympathies
16. The Left Coaster: Who's Behind the Lie that Darwin was Responsible for the Holocaust?
17. Search It: Technorati search for "Darwin Hitler"
    

The greatest irony in all of this is that Kennedy completely ignores what all historical scholar agree was the major influence on Hitler -- anti-Semitic Christianity. Don't believe me? Well, if you find any reason to think that D. James Kennedy may be right, that evolution is somehow to blame for Hitler's Holocaust, and that Christianity is not, you really ought to read the following, which show quite clearly that Hitler was motivated by the anti-Semitic theology of Luther and medieval Christianity:

1. Free Inquiry: The Great Scandal -- Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis
2. PZ Myers: Quotes by Hitler on his motivations and religious convictions
3. nsfl: Luther and Nazism
4. Wikiepedia: Anti-Semitism and the Christian World
   

And, I can't refrain from including this, since the Kennedy special had Coulter as an "expert" (in what is her field of relevant expertise, as a lawyer, again?):

• A Quiz: Did Hitler Say It, or Did Ann Coulter Say It?
  

In other news, the Panda's Thumb crew are reviewing Jonathan Wells' The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design...well, fisking it for its pathetic content, and exposing the general dimwittedness of Wells and ID generally, is more like it.
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