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 Christian Web News - Montana State University Graduate student, Michael Barton, boasts of regularly going into his local bookstore and removing books that criticize evolution from the science section of the store and putting them in the religion section - just in time for Academic Freedom Day, Feb 12 (aka Darwin Day).
Barton posted a report about his most recent act of vandalism this past Sunday: “Today I moved [Michael Behe’s] The Edge of Evolution and [Benjamin Wiker’s] The Darwin Myth away from the shelve directly under where copies of Dawkins’s The Greatest Show on Earth were, and placed them next to--I just had to--the Adventure Bible and the Princess Bible in the religion section.” No matter what Barton believes, his actions constitute censorship, plain and simple. Barton is trying to hide books he doesn’t like in order to prevent others from being exposed to views with which he disagrees. Apparently this guy is so insecure in what he believes and in the ability of evolutionists to make their case that he thinks he has to vandalize private bookstores in order to keep the books that criticize Darwin and support Intelligent Design away from the public. Barton’s activities are not only juvenile, they may well be illegal. Censors like Barton merely prove to the public just how bigoted and intolerant the Darwinist establishment has become. Darwinist ideologues increasingly place themselves above the law and try to exempt themselves of any sort of real accountability. Ironically, Darwin himself was much more open-minded than his modern-day followers. In the beginning of his book, On the Origin of Species, Darwin acknowledged that “a fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.” |
