[FoRK] Ben Stein's Love

[Tom Higgins]

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWRmOTU2YzZlN2RhMzhjNzEwNzQ3MzFiZDE2NjM3NWE=

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Science Equals Murder   [John Derbyshire]

In an interview with the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Ben Stein said the
following amazing thing in an interview with Paul Crouch, Jr.

*Stein:*   When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e.
biologist P.Z. Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was
thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling
them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed …
that was horrifying beyond words, and that's where science — in my opinion,
this is just an opinion — that's where science leads you.

*Crouch:*   That's right.

*Stein:*   …Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very
glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.

*Crouch:*   Good word, good word.

You can see the whole shameful thing here <http://tbn.org/video_portal/>.
It's a pity Crouch didn't invite the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into the studio
for a three-way conversation. It would have elevated the tone.

What it brought to my mind, when I had calmed down a bit, was Voltaire's
letter to Rousseau, after the latter had sent the former a copy of *The
Social Contract* in which Rousseau argues, to put it in the smallest
possible nutshell, that civilization is a crock. Voltaire:

I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it.
Never was such a cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid. One
longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that
habit for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility of
resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of Canada, because
the maladies to which I am condemned render a European surgeon necessary to
me; because war is going on in those regions; and because the example of our
actions has made the savages nearly as bad as ourselves.

Meanwhile, the Blood
Libel<http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGYwMzdjOWRmNGRhOWQ4MTQyZDMxNjNhYTU1YTE5Njk=>character
of what Stein is saying is beginning to dawn on thoughtful Jews.
The Anti-Defamation League has issued a
statement<http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/29786_ADL_Denounces_Ben_Steins_Expelled>deploring
Stein's Darwin-inspired-the Holocaust thesis.

And there are *NRO* readers who are on board with this dreck? I need a
drink."



-tom(ya know, this God fella needs a good ass kicking..too bad he is not
real)higgins