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A Tennessee pastor on Sunday told his congregation that the number of mass shooting were escalating because of schools were government "mind-control centers" that taught "junk about evolution" and "how to be a homo."

Old Paths Baptist Church Pastor Sam Morris began speaking about last week's school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut by warning that "this sermon will not be pleasant."

"We get all up in arms about 20 children being shot in a day care but we don't give one good-glory rip about the 4,000 that were removed violently from the wombs of their mothers [in abortion procedures] the same day," he explained. "I believe they use children and Christmas and all that to pull on our heart strings about gun control. That's what it's all about."

Morris asserted that equal rights was a "sham" because it's "equal immorality" and that authorities should take the body of the suspected shooter, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, "and string him up in public and set his body on fire and leave it out there to let the birds pick his bones."

"We're going to see more of this," he continued. "Because notice, the first thing in America we start yelling about is gun control is gun control. Have you noticed that? Gun control. No one's even thought about the fact that these shootings only happened at places where guns are banned. Have you noticed that? They have never had a mass shooting at a gun show, where you can find over a thousand loaded guns at one time."

"Why do you still send your kids to the governmental schools?" the pastor asked the congregation. "What's behind this shooting that we saw on Dec. 14 in Newtown, Connecticut and the other one's like it? What's going on. Well, number one, deception... I got news for you, when you kicked God out of schools, you're going to be judged for that."

Morris insisted that "humanism" in schools taught Lanza that he was God and "he can just go blow away anybody he wants."

"When I got in high school, man, I started learning all this kingdom, phylum stuff, all this junk about evolution," he recalled. "And I want to tell you what evolution teaches -- here's the bottom line -- that you're an animal. That's what it teaches. So, you're an animal, you can act like an animal. Amen."

"So, here you are, you're an animal and you're a god! So, what are we going to teach you about in school? Well, we can teach you about sex, we can teach you how to rebel to you parents, we can teach you how to be a homo! But we're definitely not going to teach you about the word of God! Amen."

He added: "They think homeschoolers are a bunch of crazies, man. But I'm going to tell you something, I've never seen a police officer or a medal detector at a home school. Never. Amen. Now, there's plenty of guns at my home school. Amen. I guarantee you we're not going to have a mass shooting at any of the schools that are represented in this building today. I guarantee you, if there is a shooting, it won't last very long. Amen."

"I guarantee you there's at least six or seven guns in this place right now. Amen."

(h/t: Good As You)

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Controversial Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia who ran unopposed in his deep red district was going to get re-elected but that didn't stop a lot of voters from expressing their displeasure with being represented by this type of person.

ATHENS, GA (CBS ATLANTA) - The elections may be over but the controversy continues for U.S. Rep. Paul Broun from district 10 in Athens. The Republican gained notoriety for comments he made on a YouTube video that said evolution and the Big Bang theory come "straight from the pit of hell."

Broun easily won re-election on Tuesday, but thousands of voters showed their displeasure with him by writing in their own candidates.

The election supervisor in Clarke County had never seen a write-in report as lengthy as the one she saw this year.

"I did not feel that I could in good faith vote for Mr. Broun," said voter Leslie Swann. "I wrote in a candidate of my choice."

"Who's that?" asked CBS Atlanta reporter Steve Kiggins.

"That would be the devil because I would vote for the devil himself before I would vote for that man," replied Swann.

Swann wasn't alone - nearly 4,000 people wrote in votes for the Origin of Species author, Charles Darwin.

But Darwin wasn't the only write-in candidate found on the ballots; Sesame Street's Big Bird made it a few times, and so did Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert. Also making the list was Eve Olution - plus one vote for Star Trek's Captain Sulu, George Takei.

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The Missouri Republican Senate candidate who asserted that women could not get pregnant through "legitimate rape" shared some more wisdom with a tea party group on Thursday, telling them that evolution was not "a matter of science" because "all of the different things that have to be lined up" to create life.

"I've taken a look at both sides of the thing and it seems to me that evolution takes a tremendous amount of faith," Rep. Todd Akin said in audio of the event obtained by Think Progress. "To have all of the sudden all the different things that have to be lined up to create something as sophisticated as life, it takes a lot of faith."

"I don't see it as even a matter of science because I don’t know that you can prove one or the other," he explained. That’s one of those things. We can talk about theology and all of those other things but I’m basically concerned about, you’ve got a choice between [Democratic Sen.] Claire McCaskill and myself."

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), who sits on the House science committee with Akin, recently said that evolution and other scientific theories were "lies straight from the pit of hell."

This is some kind of wonderful.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. According to Bill Nye, aka "The Science Guy," if grownups want to "deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make your kids do it because we need them."

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Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann says schools should teach children about evolution and intelligent design because "the best thing to do is to allow all scientific facts on the table."

During a question-and-answer session at the University of Northern Iowa Wednesday, Bachmann was asked if intelligent design should be taught as science in public schools.

"I think that all science should be on the table," the candidate explained. "I think the one thing we do not want to have is censorship by government."

"I do believe that God created the Earth," she continued. "And I believe there are issues that need to be addressed -- the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the issue of irreducible complexity, the dearth of fossil record."

According to many scientists, all three issues Bachmann mentioned do not discount the theory of evolution.

Scientific American's Steve Mirsky wrote in 2005 that arguing irreducible complexity as evidence against evolution was a "full-blown intellectual surrender strategy."

While Charles Darwin cited a lack of fossil records as "the most obvious and serious objection that can be urged against the theory," University of Chicago professor Jerry Coyne believes the objection is no longer valid.

"Since 1859, paleontologists have turned up Darwin's missing evidence: fossils in profusion, with many sequences showing evolutionary change," Coyne explained in a 2005 article.

And University of Minnesota, Morris associate professor PZ Myers says the claim that the Second Law of Thermodynamics makes evolution false is "one of the oldest canards in the creationists' book."

A student from Bancroft, Iowa, who identified himself as a Catholic, explained to Bachmann that there was big difference between a "theory" like intelligence design and a "scientific theory" like evolution.

"The idea of creationism by an intelligent designer is not scientific," he said. "It is pseudo-science. There is no hard evidence that says that God created Earth. There is nothing like that. Whereas, we have physicists, chemists, biologists, many other people in the science field that say this is how the Earth was created, this is how the universe was created. ... How can you say that creationism can be taught in a public school where this would actually increase the combining of church and state?"

"I think what you are advocating for is censorship on the part of government," Bachmann replied. "I want all facts on the table. ... Why would we forestall any particular theory? Because I don't think that evolutionists, by and large, say that evolution is a proven fact. They say that this is a theory as well as intelligent design."

"So I think intellectually, the best thing to do is to allow all scientific facts on the table and let students decide."

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Rick Perry dances around some of those tricky "gotcha" science-y questions, the kind that could get him trouble with his base if he doesn't mention creationism as an equally valid concept but also could get him completely discounted as a nutbar if he goes too far with that kind of talk among regular folks who don't think the earth is flat, or that we rode around on dinosaurs back in the Flintstones era.

KID: "How old do you think the earth is?"

RICK PERRY: "You know what? I don't have any idea....I'm not sure anybody knows absolutely and completely for sure."

KID: "Do you believe in Evolution?"

RICK PERRY: "It's a theory that's out there. It's got some gaps in it. In Texas we teach both creationism and evolution....You know, 'cos I figure you're smart enough to figure out which one's right." [WINK]

Sounds like he said "gas" but I'm pretty sure it's "gaps". That would be consistent with his overall message.

UPDATE: Apparently Rick Perry has no idea what he's talking about though.

“No, it is not true," said Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network, an interest group that has lobbied the State Board of Education to keep religion out of public schools. "Texas science standards do not call for teaching creationism in the classroom."

David Bradley, a social conservative member of the State Board of Education, said he hadn't heard the governor's comments. But when asked if Texas schools teach creationism alongside evolution, Bradley responded: "Not specifically."

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As Bill Maher explained in his New Rules segment, the Republicans are having a little trouble with their field of primary candidates so far this year.

MAHER: And finally new rule, someone has to come to the aid of the Republican Party. I have seen a more appealing lineup on an episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit. Now the reason it's so hard for Republicans to run these days is the same reason the ratings for Donald Trump's show are up this year; the crazier the contestants, the more the voters like it.

They keep flirting with flavors of the month where each mortifying, rabid, has-been shines for a minute, and then flames out in a toxic cloud like an eco-friendly light bulb. All in a vain attempt to somehow find a candidate meaner than Trump and dumber than Palin. A candidate that will meet these criteria:

a) Never compromise on anything or ever work with the Democrats.

b) Always treat Obama like he's some mysterious black guy who turned up uninvited at your country club; President Bagger Vance.

c) Never admit government is useful for anything. The government is always like Snooki's vagina. It's too big. It services too many people and nothing good will ever come out of it.

After listing off the group of people Maher thinks will fit that criteria like Charlie Sheen, Ted Nugent, Andrew Dice Clay, Thor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger's penis, Maher finally settles on his personal favorite, face ripper monkey. Maher explained why he thought face ripper monkey would appeal to the "tea party" (or a.k.a. the extreme right wing of the Republican base).

MAHER: His very existence disproves evolution. And he's not a "Washington insider." In fact, he's not an insider at all. Face ripper monkey doesn't wait around for government to solve his problems. He acts. He doesn't do nuance. He goes with his gut... and for your face.

Face ripper monkey is aggressive, independent and he's... he's not afraid to prove his toughness with direct, common sense solutions, like ripping off people's faces.

And the best thing about face ripper monkey, he will accept not being at the top of the ticket.

Maher couldn't get that out without breaking up in laughter himself.

And word of warning, this segment is definitely nsfw.

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Former CNN host and comedian D.L. Hughley proved that there are still some liberals out there that can embarrass us just as badly as Rep. Jack Kingston did on this weekend's Real Time with Bill Maher. The panel which also consisted of former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell and The National Review's Will Cain started the debate on climate change and whether it's real or not or has been properly labeled, and ended it with both Kingston and Hughley admitting that they did not believe in the theory of evolution.

It's pretty sad that the former Prime Minister's remarks that the over-use of antibiotics and the fact that bacteria evolve is proof that evolution does actually exist and has been proven to be real by scientific study seemed to fall on deaf ears by those two.

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In this week's Random Rush, where Sam Seder listen to 60 seconds of Rush Limbaugh at random, Rush's incoherent attack on liberal's love of evolution throws Sam for a loop.

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Chris Matthews destroys Mike Pence over his and his party's views on evolution and science. Pence thinks Matthews arguments are "weak" but he denies the existence of the knuckle-draggers in his party and basically says he wants creationism taught in schools without using the word.

Matthews: You want to educate the American people about science and its relevance today. Do you believe in evolution sir?

Pence: Um...do I believe in evolution? I embrace the, the view that god created the heavens and the earth and the seas and all that's in them.

Matthews: Right. But do you believe in evolution as the way he did it?

Pence: The means Chris that he used to do that...I can't say, but I do believe in that fundamental truth.

Matthews: Did you take biology in school? Did you take science which is all based in evolutionary belief and assumption. The reason I'm asking this is not to pick a fight. If your party wants to be credible on science you've got to accept science. Do you?

Pence: I always wanted to play in Inherit the Wind but on the global warming issue I know that in the main stream media...

Matthews: See how you're hedging? This is why people don't trust Republicans.

Pence: In the main stream media Chris there is a denial of the growing skepticism in the scientific community about global warming.

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