She can't be serious...

Ann Coulter has a new book. I'd like to echo a few comments made by PZ Meyers over at Pharyngula. In her exposé of what she calls the "Church of Liberalism" we are to learn of:

* Its sacraments (abortion)
* Its holy writ (Roe v. Wade)
* Its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal)
* Its clergy (public school teachers)
* Its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free)
* Its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the "absolute moral authority" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland)
* And its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident)

If you're not rolling on the floor with laughter by now here's something that will tip you over the edge...

Then, of course, there's the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

What is it with people like Ann Coulter? In the same way Andrew Bolt dismisses global warming ("What would they know, they're just stupid scientists"), Coulter and her allied pundits see the overwhelming scientific consensus over evolution as some sort of conspiracy amongst scientists. Apparently, the evidence overwhelmingly supports the creationist view of origins, and for over a century scientists have worked relentlessly to stop the truth from getting out. There's evidence of the big guy upstairs left right and centre and they just keep sweeping it under the rug.

However, I'd have to agree entirely with Arthur Vandelay when he says that in this case the Right has well and truly jumped the shark.