# Ain't that a shame - Pat Boone on evolution **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 31, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337 "2007-01-31T22:39:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/21 "2007-02-01T18:41:31Z")
What do you expect from someone whose mind is ruined by drugs. No, wait - make that mind ruined by religion. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/22 "2007-02-01T18:45:55Z")
You were right the first time. “Religion is the opium of the people.” - Karl Marx. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/23 "2007-02-01T18:55:03Z")
He makes a mistake that seems to be common to these knee-jerk fundie Creationists: he declares Darwinism to be “farfetched” and claims Intelligent Design is “much more plausible,” apparently without knowing that ID cites the truth of Darwinism as a given. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/24 "2007-02-01T19:22:14Z")
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian] Whenever I think of Pat Boone, the first thing that comes to mind is his “dick in a box” picture that was going around the tubes of the internets a while back. Never let a picture of yourself with your dick in a box be taken. [/QUOTE] Do I even _want_ to ask for an explanation here, let alone a direction to said attrocity? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/25 "2007-02-01T19:28:48Z")
[QUOTE=faithfool] Do I even _want_ to ask for an explanation here, let alone a direction to said attrocity? :eek: [/QUOTE] Personally, I’m afraid to ask. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/26 "2007-02-01T19:54:51Z")
I guess the whacko nut-case institute of creationism / intelligent design decided it needed another singer / spokesman besides Charlie Daniels. (Yeah I’ve pitted him before concerning his scientifical beliefs). The one thing that is really getting old about this “debate” is the assinine ‘it’s only a theory’ argument. From Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, we learn E=mc² (or so I was _forced_ to learn in my robot-like, unquestioning science classes) 🙂 Gee, Pat Boone, I guess E=mc² is ‘just a theory’ too? I wonder how the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki feel about the ‘theoretical’ nature of E=mc²? ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/27 "2007-02-01T20:07:15Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] How could anyone ook at the fossil record and say this? [/QUOTE] Man didn’t evolve from apes. Man evolved into orangutans. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/28 "2007-02-01T20:11:19Z")
They do teach the difference between the trivial and the formal definitions of the word “theory” these days, don’t they? Cause I know I was taught it, but judging from the casual misuse of the word I see _constantly_, I must have been the last person ever to hear it. > [@](#): > > How could anyone ook at the fossil record and say this? Please tell me you did this on purpose. 🙂 _OOK OOK_ ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/29 "2007-02-01T20:32:45Z")
Ugh. And here I thought butchering Metallica was the most offensive thing the guy could do. > [@Mr. Bland](#): > > To me (and I’ll explain, so stay with me) this theory is exactly like Steve Martin’s joke. It starts with a wish, a desire, proceeds through a ludicrous construction or process, and leads to a preposterous conclusion. Wait. Is he confused? Is he talking about evolution or religion? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/30 "2007-02-01T20:35:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Apes have always been apes, and **humans always human _(though some of us less so than others)_.** My emphasis. Do I even want to know what this means? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/31 "2007-02-01T20:40:43Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] My emphasis. Do I even want to know what this means? [/QUOTE] Only at the risk of finding out which category you belong to. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/32 "2007-02-01T21:26:07Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] How could anyone ook at the fossil record and say this? > [@](#): > > He writes, “Millions upon millions of fossils have been collected to date, but there is no evidence of transition fossils, that is, fossils of organisms in an intermediate stage of development between steps on the evolutionary ladder.” [/QUOTE] Well, strictly speaking, he’s right: there is no evidence of organisms in an intermediate stage of development between steps on the evolutionary ladder. Seeing as how there is no “evolutionary ladder”, one _wouldn’t_ expect to find any of these so-called “steps”, much less intermediate steps between those. Of course, Mr. Boone fails to realize that the old _scala naturae_ isn’t exactly a cutting edge idea in modern evolutionary biology… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/33 "2007-02-01T21:29:59Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] Only at the risk of finding out which category you belong to. 😉 [/QUOTE] Four legs good, three legs beeeeeetter! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/34 "2007-02-01T21:49:17Z")
And “no historical evidence” for the “claim that life evolved . . . over millions of years”, was kind of rich. I wonder if he has even a passing acquaintance with what the word “historical” means… Maybe he does, and hopes that his audience doesn’t. He ought to see if next week he can sneak in “no eyewitness evidence”. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/35 "2007-02-01T23:08:21Z")
Dear God! What utter drivel. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/36 "2007-02-01T23:19:22Z")
[QUOTE=faithfool] Do I even _want_ to ask for an explanation here, let alone a direction to said attrocity? :eek: [/QUOTE] If you do a Google image search of “pat boone”, with safe mode off, in the third row of thumbnails, second column, you’ll see what I mean. If you’ve seen the SNL video “Dick in a Box,” it’s pretty much that. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/37 "2007-02-02T05:38:44Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] There’s a case of the rice calling the snow white. (This is Pat Boone - pots and kettles just don’t work as a metaphor.) [/QUOTE] More like the pot calling the fine silverware black. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/38 "2007-02-02T09:15:19Z")
[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian] If you do a Google image search of “pat boone”, with safe mode off, in the third row of thumbnails, second column, you’ll see what I mean. If you’ve seen the SNL video “Dick in a Box,” it’s pretty much that. [/QUOTE] I’m so sorry I did that. :eek: How will I ever be able to sleep now? ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/39 "2007-02-03T04:07:29Z")
In other news, I think it’s great that Chuck Norris has found work writing a blog now that “Lone Texas Walker: Missing Delta Force” is off the air. I’ll just say that his acting skills aren’t his only strength! ---
**Author:** ![scottkris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@scottkris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scottkris)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/40 "2007-02-03T06:41:59Z")
[QUOTE=Jackmannii] The [Master](http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53967) speaks. Fallacies and straw men abound. [/QUOTE] Ummmm…you **DO** know that world net daily is a tabloid, like the Enquirer or the Sun, right… Right… Right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337.md?page=3)