# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/41 "2007-02-03T08:45:24Z")
[QUOTE=scottkris] Ummmm…you **DO** know that world net daily is a tabloid, like the Enquirer or the Sun, right… Right… Right? [/QUOTE] Right. What’s your point? ---
**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, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/42 "2007-02-03T09:01:47Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Right. What’s your point? [/QUOTE] That perhaps it was made up? Oh, no… It was on the **INTERNET** It must be real! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/43 "2007-02-03T09:13:26Z")
So, you don’t think Pat Boone really wrote the column? What, exactly, would be served by pretending that he did? ---
**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, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/44 "2007-02-03T09:23:57Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] So, you don’t think Pat Boone really wrote the column? What, exactly, would be served by pretending that he did? [/QUOTE] I didn’t say that I don’t think he did… I didn’t even bother to read the link. I **did** _suggest_ that the world news daily is a supermarket rag, and have their own agenda to persue… ie, selling newspapers that naive people will read… as obviously the people in this thread did. (or would, if their firewall blocked the article) ---
**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, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/45 "2007-02-03T09:30:33Z")
[QUOTE=scottkris] I didn’t say that I don’t think he did… I didn’t even bother to read the link. I **did** _suggest_ that the world news daily is a supermarket rag, and have their own agenda to persue… ie, selling newspapers that naive people will read… as obviously the people in this thread did. (or would, if their firewall blocked the article) [/QUOTE] For the clue-impaired: I am saying that World News Daily is a troll. ---
**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 3, 2007, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/46 "2007-02-03T09:30:36Z")
[QUOTE=scottkris] I **did** _suggest_ that the world news daily is a supermarket rag [/QUOTE] Is this a whoosh? ---
**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, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/47 "2007-02-03T09:36:05Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Is this a whoosh? [/QUOTE] DING! DING! DING! DING! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/48 "2007-02-03T10:03:41Z")
I love this line (emphasis mine): > [@](#): > > …the vastly more plausible notion that this incredible universe and all living things point logically to a Creator with an intelligence far beyond our feeble comprehension \*\* _(no matter how many Ph.D. degrees we might have among us_\*\*) Let’s see, counting the number of Ph.D degrees that Pat has along with those of others in the room then you’ll have approximately… the number of others in the room. (Pat graduated with a high school diploma from a Fundamentalist Christian liberal arts high school & junior college in Tennessee and that in the early 1950s; I’m guessing their cosmological and life sciences research departments weren’t cutting edge, though if they were this was in 1954, aka the era of “Crick… Crick… is that the guy Watson went with after he left Sherlock Holmes or after he stoped taking phone messages for Alexander Graham Bell?”) Then there was the little bankruptcy problem he had when he had to pay almost $1 million in fines and refunds for a non-FDA approved acne medicine he was the public spokesperson for and also secretly the half-owner of the company that manufactured and promoted and gave personal testimonials from his daughters for the effectiveness of (all of the testimonials lies). Hypocrite. And his wife is the one who prayed at neighbor Liberace’s bedside in spite of having to get through bodyguards and high voltage fences to do it and in spite of the (very devoutly Catholic) pianist not particularly wanting his next door neighbor (the very Protestant [and Church of Christ excommunicate]) Mrs. Foley-Boone to pray with him. Pat also wrote a cool article on who is and who isn’t a [patriot](http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49437). He’s written more but it’s still being peer reviewed by Charlie Daniels and Ann Coulter. ---
**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, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/49 "2007-02-03T10:35:54Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] I love this line (emphasis mine): \ . [/QUOTE] Hmmm…another quasi-quote from WND and ad hominem attacks with “uncited” quotes. yep… SDMB fighting ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/50 "2007-02-03T14:40:27Z")
Scottkris, what is your point? Or, better yet, what is your problem??? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/51 "2007-02-03T16:49:04Z")
[QUOTE=scottkris] Hmmm…another quasi-quote from WND and ad hominem attacks with “uncited” quotes. yep… SDMB fighting ignorance. [/QUOTE] How about a link from Pat Boone’s official website [linking _directly_ to those WND articles?](http://www.patboone.com/) Second column, bottom of the _Quick Links_ section. I apologize for the background music in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/52 "2007-02-03T17:27:42Z")
If that’s not enough of a cite for you, [what about his own blog?](http://www.patboone.com/blog.php) ---
**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, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/53 "2007-02-03T18:06:59Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] If that’s not enough of a cite for you, [what about his own blog?](http://www.patboone.com/blog.php) [/QUOTE] No problem…as I said I did not read any of the links, and was **asking** for a non-tabloid link. Kudos, and all that jazz… ---
**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, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/54 "2007-02-03T18:09:51Z")
[QUOTE=kayT] Scottkris, what is your point? Or, better yet, what is your problem??? [/QUOTE] I’m lazy and wanted a second opinion… Relax. ---
**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 3, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/55 "2007-02-03T18:13:48Z")
It’s my understanding that WND is not _World News Daily_, supermarket tabloid (and are you sure you’re not thinking of _Weekly World News_, **scottkris**?), but _World Net Daily_, right-wing Fundamentalist wacko website with a bit of an Armageddon-wish. Are you trying to debunk something here, **scottkris**? You might want to be more clear with that. And more careful with your assertions. Looks like I’m a little late. Oh, well. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/56 "2007-02-03T18:19:14Z")
“ **Bat Boy is Gay**!” ---
**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, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/57 "2007-02-03T18:19:57Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Looks like I’m a little late. Oh, well. [/QUOTE] 'Sokay. Perhaps **I** was wrong as well… ---
**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 3, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/58 "2007-02-03T18:54:41Z")
So it wasn’t a whoosh. You were just being an idiot. Glad we got that cleared up. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/59 "2007-02-03T18:57:27Z")
That is one ugly blog. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337/60 "2007-02-03T23:06:51Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] “ **Bat Boy is Gay**!” [/QUOTE] Somebody call Matt Daemon! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-that-a-shame-pat-boone-on-evolution/390337.md?page=4)