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I recently read this post on David W. Irish’s blog. Basically, David tried to comment on an article about evolution written by Ray Comfort on Worldview Weekend, an ultra-fundamentalist crazy conservative Christian (they claim) website. Ray’s article claimed that there are no transitional fossils, which, if evolution were true, there should be plenty. Unfortunately for Ray, the truth (not that he cares) is that there most certainly are tons of transitional fossils.

David’s comment, which you can read on his blog, was thoughtful and talked about several specific transitional fossils. To his surprise and dismay, a few hours after submitting his comment, David recieved this email:

Brannon@worldviewweekend.com”
1:20 pm (15 minutes ago)
to priscus.forem@gmail.com
date Apr 15, 2008 1:20 PM
subject your feedback

your feedback was rejected because it was soooo lame.

If you really think there is even one transitional fossil then you should go find it and put it on E-bay because the leading evolutionist have admitted they do not have even one. I could send you their quotes and the books in which they wrote this if you really wanted to be educated…but I don’t think you are interested in being educated but in repeating lies so you can keep believing lies.

Very sad.

Next time you offer feedback try not to write fairy tales and it might get accepted.

Thank you.

Well holy cow. Sounds like someone is afraid of facts.

More than a little angered by this, I went to the same article and tried to leave a comment along the lines of, “I would gladly list some transitional fossils here, but we’ve already seen that the administrators of this website are afraid of the truth. I’m looking at you, Brannon!” A little acerbic, I admit.

Today, I got this email:

from Brannon@worldviewweekend.com
to jason@jeffthefish.com,
date Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:50 AM
subject your feedback

hide details 9:50 AM (5 hours ago)

Reply

your feedback was rejected because it was soooo lame.

If you really think there is even one transitional fossil then you should go find it and put it on E-bay because the leading evolutionist have admitted they do not have even one. I could send you their quotes and the books in which they wrote this if you really wanted to be educated…but I don’t think you are interested in being educated but in repeating lies so you can keep believing lies.

Very sad.

Next time you offer feedback try not to write fairy tales and it might get accepted.

Thank you.

Huh. Interesting. A little miffed, I sent this reply:

Brannon, you should be ashamed of yourself. I will be praying for you. You need to grow up. I was always under the impression that Christians had an obligation to the truth. You, apparently, have the opposite obligation.

And if this is your official rejection email, your organization also has a lot of growing up to do. I know I am not the first person to get this exact same email response from you:
http://priscusforem.blogspot.com/2008/04/email-reply-from-christian-worldview.html

I also went to the Worldview Weekend homepage to look for a general contact address. I thought, as David W. Irish did, that perhaps Brannon was some punk kid stepping out of his bounds and being a poor representation of his organization, not to mention poor Jesus! The email address I found was info@worldviewweekend.

Then I got this email from Brannon:

to Jason J Brunet jason@jeffthefish.com,
date Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:20 AM
subject Re: your feedback

Reply

tough…deal with it…it is my site, I built it, I run it and I will do whatever I please with it. Don’t like it then don’t come to my site, start your own site for the 2 people that would come to read it.

I don’t have to print your fairy tales about anything if I don’t want to. If you want to confuse people with your lies about transitional fossils then do it on your own site.

BTW, I like how you still have not answered the question. Tell me where there is even one transitional fossil? Who holds it, where is it kept, where is a picture of it? In what publication is this transitional fossil written about? Remember a transitional fossil is one kind changing into another. Not mico-evolution. (Are you keeping up with me here on the terms? I don’t want to go over your head. Here is a little information for you from one of my books.

Dr. Colin Patterson, an evolutionist with the British Museum of Natural History, wrote a book but did not include a single picture of a transitional fossil. When someone wrote him to ask why this was the case, Dr. Patterson responded:

I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. You suggest that an artist should be used to visualize such transformations, but where would he get the information from? I could not, honestly, provide it, and if I were to leave it to artistic license, would that not mislead the reader? . . . As a paleontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record. You say that I should at least “show a photo of the fossil from which each type of organism was derived.” I will lay it on the line—there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.40

Stephen Jay Gould is perhaps one of the most well-known evolutionists, and he, too, recognizes the problem: “The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution.”41 Gould also states, “I regard the failure to find a clear ‘vector of progress’ in life’s history as the most puzzling fact of the fossil record.”42

Wah wah wee wah! What a prick! This is how I found out he owns the website and the company. I think he may be a one man operation. His ego is certainly big enough.

To this I replied:

Yeah, don’t worry. This will all be going on my website where both people can see the kind of people Creationists are.

To answer your question: Pakicetus, Ambulocetus, Rhodocetus. That’s three. Also, every therapsid. That’s hundreds.

The rest of the email exchange went as follows:

Brannon: great..thanks for the promotion.
Jason: Don’t mention it. You have one of the most entertaining sites on the web
Brannon: dude, I own the company…who do you think is going to stop me?
Jason: I didn’t know you owned the company until you responded to my complaint to the info address. I don’t think anyone is going to stop you. I’m certainly not trying to. I’m just trying to educate people.
Brannon: nothing wrong with that..it is a free country.

So there you have it. Brannon Howse is a tremendous jerk. His website claims to teach people to think and live like a Christian. How would he know where to start? I think it’s more likely that Brannon is a huckster and a fraud who just wants to make some money on the backs of the true believers. And now there are two more people in the world who have seen him for what he is. Not to mention poor Jesus.

EDIT: I forgot to point out that Brannon ignored the fact that I provided examples of transitional fossils.

Stumble it!

Posted on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in Category Evolution. Please comment, ok?