First of all, a creationist once told me that fundipundit Jerry Bergman was a high-muckey-much at the Human Genome Project. Does anyone know what his position was there?
Secondly, Bergman is the fellow who made the story of Ota Benga (a pygmy held in the monkey house of the zoo by evilutionists) a favorite among creationists. Can anyone direct me to a real source on this case? Bergman’s own cites are all from turn-of-the-century newspapers which are inaccessible to me.
-Ben
A good book on this subject is Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo, by Phillips Verner Bradford. According to Amazon, it’s now out of print, but most good-size libraries should have a copy.
It’s a great, although sad, book that includes copies of many of the newspaper clippings that were written about Ota while he was in America (both on and off display).
Incidentally, I’ve never heard Ota Benga mentioned by creationists. Are they arguing that because something morally wrong was done supposedly in support of evolution, evolution is therefore factually wrong?
–sublight.
Of course! A key element of their logic is “you shall know them by their fruits.” Since people have used evolution to justify their evil actions, creationists state that it has yielded “bad fruits” and is therefore incorrect.
Of course, the same argument could be applied with equal logic to Christianity, which is why they love the “no true Scotsman” fallacy so much…
Thanks for the cite- I’ll check for it in the library.
-Ben