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RUSH: McComb, Ohio, this is Billy, great to have you on the program, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Yes, sir. I have a bone to pick with you, Rush. You\u2019re in my top ten most admired people, but I don\u2019t understand what you have a problem with Darwin, you know? Seems to me that science is pretty sound on this, and I would agree with you totally on other sciences like global warming —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, no, I should\u2019ve thrown Marx in there, too, along with Freud.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Well, I\u2019m not a Marxist. I mean, Ayn Rand is probably my number one most admired people, but I consider the science pretty sound. I mean, the DNA is 98% the same as the great apes. And as far as O\u2019Donnell\u2019s comment is concerned, you know, I hope she wins and all that, but I think she misunderstands that human beings and the great apes share a common ancestor. They didn\u2019t evolve from apes, they shared the same common ancestor, sort of like a tree branching off.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Yeah.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Yeah. So I don\u2019t — you know, as far as Darwin is concerned, I know a lot of people, a lot of Republicans are Christian, and although I may agree with them on a lot of different issues, I think they\u2019re way off on this. And I think the — you know, I don\u2019t understand it.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, the only thing that some people have with Darwin is that they believe evolution cannot explain creation. I happen to agree with that. I don\u2019t think evolution can explain creation. And something had to evolve from something. Where does something come from? It didn\u2019t evolve from nothing. Something had to put it there. It had to be created. Darwin tries to argue against creation, and it gives the anti-creationists ammo, Darwin does. I think it actually limits inquiry and curiosity, contrary to promoting it.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Well, but why would you disparage a certain theory just because you can\u2019t explain something else? I mean, you know, there\u2019s lots of —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, Darwin can\u2019t prove his, either.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: I think there is solid evidence in favor of Darwin. Like I said, 98% DNA the same. If you look at — if you look at the fossils —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Okay, what Big Banged? There was a Big Bang, right? The Big Bang of what?<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Well, I\u2019m not a professional scientist, but I will say this, that just as far as evolution is concerned, if you look at the bone structures of human beings versus the bone structures of apes —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Yeah?<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: — and — they\u2019re very similar.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Yeah, I know.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: And then on top of that — just as the theory of evolution as a whole, not just from apes — if you look at how viruses or bacteria mutate, you know, how —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m not — wait a minute. You may be misunderstanding here. I have never said I don\u2019t believe in evolution; clearly things evolve. All I believe is that evolution does not explain creation. And the evolution the Darwinists use — Darwin and whatever it is he believes — to argue against the whole concept of creationism, or intelligent design, which to me is intellectually vapid.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t think — I don\u2019t think Darwinism necessarily says that there\u2019s — I am an atheist, but I don\u2019t think — I don\u2019t think Darwin, you know, the philosophy of evolution comes out and says that there is no God, you know? But I do think —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know, Darwin may not have, but the people that don\u2019t believe in God use Darwin as their evidence. I mean, Darwin created a lot of, shall we&hellip; gave a lot of people a lot of insurance policies.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Well, there — see, I don\u2019t understand this. Just as there\u2019s no evolution — evidence for socialism, there\u2019s no evidence for creation. So why would you try to even bring creation up —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Wait a second, what do you mean there\u2019s no evidence for socialism?<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: What I mean is there\u2019s no evidence it works. Excuse me.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Oh. Oh. I see. Yes.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: But it\u2019s the same thing, so I don\u2019t understand when — you know, I agree with Republicans and conservatives when they say, ‘this stuff has been tried, socialism has been tried,\u2019 but on the other hand, when you look at — there\u2019s no evidence for the evidence of creation, either, it\u2019s all based on faith. Where you have faith in socialism, you have —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Alright —<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: — faith in —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: No, no, no, socialism is not a matter of faith. I mean, if you believe in socialism, you\u2019re stupid! There\u2019s evidence it doesn\u2019t work! Of course —<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: I know. That\u2019s what —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Of course creationism is — but Darwinism is faith, too. That\u2019s my whole point. Darwinism is presented as absolute science, inarguable science, and it\u2019s faith as well.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: It is science. It is science, Rush. There\u2019s a lot of evidence —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, then I\u2019m going to say creationism is a science, intelligent design is a science. If you say my faith isn\u2019t a science, I\u2019m going to say yours isn\u2019t.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Yeah, but there\u2019s actual fossil — I mean, there\u2019s actual bones, when you look at — I\u2019m not a professional scientist, I\u2019m not —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: I know, you\u2019ve made that clear. And, you know, I\u2019m not a professional creationist.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Okay.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m not a professional intelligent designer. You know —<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Okay. Okay, well, I just totally disagree with you on that —<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: I just think it\u2019s a shame. If we and apes have a common ancestor, the apes got screwed.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Yeah, they did.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Wouldn\u2019t you rather be a human being than an ape?<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Of course.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: I mean, I like air-conditioning, running water, toilets and so forth. I don\u2019t like to eat bananas all the time and terrorize people.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: (laughing) Yeah.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m glad that my ancestors are human. I wouldn\u2019t want to be an ape.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Yeah.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: The only reason to be an ape is there\u2019s probably better chance of meeting Naomi Watts than if you\u2019re a human being, but even that\u2019s a long shot.<\/line> <\/line>CALLER: Correct. Okay, El Rushbo. We\u2019ll have to just agree to disagree on that one, but go Sharron Angle.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Amen, bro. I mean, look. We\u2019re not on different sides of this thing. I don\u2019t mean for you take what I said personally. I do think Darwin has caused humanity a lot of grief, like Freud has caused humanity a lot of confusion, and like Marx has literally, single-handedly been responsible for more murder than any organized criminal you could name. <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, look, folks, as I\u2019ve told you countless times, I live in Literalville. And this is one of the things I think that results in me being more misunderstood than anything else. If you tell me something, I take it literally. I believe that you mean it. I don\u2019t dance around edges trying to figure out what you really meant. If you say it, I believe it. I live in Literalville, and I\u2019m telling you that when it comes to evolution and creationism, they are both articles of faith. Neither can be proved as a means of explaining how all this came to be. Nobody\u2019s arguing that there is within species evolution, but cross-species evolution? <\/p>\n

There\u2019s another objection that some people have to evolution, and that is, to some people it\u2019s a tautology, survival of the fittest, meaning that what survives is the fittest. It\u2019s always amazed me that liberals embrace this. Liberals hate the survival of the fittest, do they not? Liberals are obsessed with the equality of outcome. Liberals say they\u2019re animated and motivated by the fact that they can\u2019t stand the inequality of things. It\u2019s not fair that somebody should be richer than somebody else. It\u2019s not fair that somebody should have two houses while somebody else has only one. Well, if they\u2019re gonna profess their belief in evolution, isn\u2019t it the case that the survival of the fittest must be allowed to explain all of this? In other words, that some people have more than others because they\u2019re more competent; they\u2019re more able; they\u2019re more fit. And yet the same people want to tell us, ‘Oh, yeah, you have to believe in survival of the fittest. That\u2019s why the weak members of the tribe end up being slaughtered, that\u2019s why the weak lion goes away and gets creamed by the wildebeest or whatever the hell happens. You know, vanishes into the veldt in Rhodesia.\u2019 Darwin\u2019s major premise is the Origin of the Species. Now, I, living in Literalville, say, point me to a species we have seen originate. I\u2019m sorry, I live in Literalville. Origin of the Species. Okay, I\u2019m sorry. As much as people may love Darwin, he cannot explain the Origin of the Species. And nor can I. Nor can Marx, and nor can Obama. <\/p>\n

Now, back to tautology. How do you know it\u2019s the fittest, survival of the fittest? Well, the only way you know that it\u2019s the fittest is that it survived. It\u2019s just circular. It really doesn\u2019t advance anything. You know, people find comfort and faith anywhere they can. And some people are hell-bent on not being religious. It\u2019s an article of faith with them. ‘I\u2019m not going to be sucked in by some religion. I\u2019m not going to surrender my mind to a bunch of baseless religion.\u2019 Some people have that attitude while other people totally immerse themselves in it and be very comfortable having faith. But Darwinism isn\u2019t science any more than creationism is. Global warming is not science, it\u2019s not been proved in the scientific method. Another test of whether something is — and I\u2019d have to confirm this with my official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama Huntsville — but to me another test of whether something is science or not is if it\u2019s predictive. Can you predict from your knowledge of the science? Evolution is not predictable. What has evolution ever predicted? What can we know for certain is going to happen down the road because of evolution? <\/p>\n

Just the other day, maybe yesterday, the day before, I had a story in the Stack of Stuff, they found 150 new species somewhere, didn\u2019t even know existed. Well, okay, cool. I thought we were destroying species, but that\u2019s beside the point, where did these come from? Simply because we didn\u2019t know them, does that mean they weren\u2019t there, because we had not discovered these species, they weren\u2019t there? I\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t believe that. Just because we didn\u2019t know it doesn\u2019t mean they weren\u2019t there before we found out about it. Global warming has turned out to not be predictive, either, as we have seen over the last ten years. If global warming were predictive, we\u2019d have had a thousand hurricanes already this year, right? Based on what Algore told us after Katrina. If you live in Literalville like I do, it\u2019s amazing how simple things are. But if you want to live in Grayville, where there\u2019s no certitude, you can confuse yourself \u2019til the day you die, all the while convincing yourself you\u2019re brilliant. Which is what I found amazing. Some of the most confused people with no answers of anything are among our greatest thinkers, among our finest scholars, and they\u2019re just running around in rampant confusion. One day, oat bran is going to cure heart attacks. The next day all it\u2019s going to do is create more cellular fat in your butt. They haven\u2019t the slightest idea, pure and simple. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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