The Constitution and Creationism

Lauri Lebo lets us know that David Barton has said something silly again.  Barton makes a name for himself by knowing the exact thoughts of each Founding Father and their intentions for the radical experiment in democracy known as The United States.  Conveniently, the Founding Fathers unanimously agreed with everything he believes ideologically and even theologically.  It seems strange considering that the drafting of the Declaration and the framing of Constitution took place under serious debate and compromise including men of various religions and political identities.  But then again, Barton has said "that Jesus opposed the minimum wage or that the bible takes a stand against net neutrality."


Now Barton has discovered that the Founding Fathers had discovered, decided and dismissed evolution and preferred that creationism be taught in our schools.  Check out the video:

So according to David Barton, the Founding Fathers discussed evolution about 70 years before Charles Darwin introduced the idea and described the mechanism of natural selection in his book, On the Origin of Species.  And they decided that creationism should be taught in our public schools which that predicted Horace Mann would begin in the 1830's.  

This would just be funny if so many people didn't listen to and agree with such babble.  Any person who gives this a quick thought would understand how ridiculous it is.  Barton shows us he does not understand history, religion, law or science.  Each of which he claims to be an expert for.  I wish that I could knowingly lie to people just to take their money.  History and science are so much easier when you can just make stuff up.