{"id":171,"date":"2007-03-01T07:16:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T11:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=171"},"modified":"2008-08-05T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T16:41:14","slug":"3000-wasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"$3,000 wasted"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m happy to say that students at the University of Florida aren’t fools. At least not the ones who listened to Oktar Babuna spout off a lot of nonsense against evolution earlier this week. The university newspaper reports<\/a> that he was paid $3,000 to speak, but it appeared to be money wasted. After claiming that the human eye could never have evolved (you sure about that<\/a>?) and plopping down his simple-minded “fish could never have transferred to land” idiocy (and are you sure about that<\/a>?), he laid the big smackdown on evolution:<\/p>\n

In conclusion, Babuna said, evolution is not a theory but an ideology that is aimed at convincing people to be atheists.<\/p>\n

“Apes are apes, and humans are humans,” he said. “There is nothing in between.”<\/p>\n

But he did not discuss any scientific evidence supporting creationism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Students who knew better weren’t buying the manure he was selling. Heck, even his sponsor tried to get some distance.<\/p>\n

Vice President of Islam on Campus Yaser Ali said his organization brought Babuna to encourage debate and provide a different perspective on the issue.<\/p>\n

“These views aren’t necessarily the views of Islam on Campus,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m happy to say that students at the University of Florida aren’t fools. At least not the ones who listened to Oktar Babuna spout off a lot of nonsense against evolution earlier this week. 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