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Dawkins Confesses: "Evolution is a Marxist Conspiracy!"
NEW WRECK TIMES
Senior Travel Editor
Gerry Bronco
Washington, DC– British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author, Richard Dawkins, confessed in a series of interrogations early last year that the Earth is only six thousand years old and the teaching of Evolution is a conspiracy by Marxist elements.
According to former senior officials of the Bush Department of Faith-Based Initiatives, Dawkins was apprehended in February of 2008 and secretly renditioned to a foreign black site where the interrogations took place.
"He was one of the most difficult of the high value targets we’ve come across," a former senior official remarked, "we waterboarded him 183 times before he confessed."
Sleep deprivation, stress positions and other enhanced techniques were also used, according to a little noticed chart included along with the more well-known of the so-called, torture memos.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularized the gene-centered view of evolution. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to evolutionary biology with the theory, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism’s body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
A prominent critic of creationism and intelligent design, Dawkins was targeted by the Department of Faith-Based Initiatives, according to the former senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity.
"We saw how well the Department of Defense contractors had interrogating Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheik Muhammed," the senior official stated, "it was imperative to find evidence of an al Qaida-Iraq collaboration. Without the enhanced interrogations, that link never would have been established. The Department of Faith-Based Initiatives and other departments of the Bush Adminstration were mandated to codify threat levels to their mission. Dawkins was deemed an immediate threat, a ticking time-bomb and was renditioned off-shore."
Dawkins also confessed that Regent University and The Discovery Institute are pre-eminent institutions and have been criminally maligned by secret Marxist cells.
When asked why Dawkins’ confession was not made public last year, the senior official pointed to the recent decision by the Texas State Textbook and Curriculum to include intelligent design in that state’s science textbooks.
"Actionable intelligence is utilized when needed," the senior official said, "Dawkins’ confessions were of little use last year. But with the many Bush loyalists burrowed throughout the Obama administration, expect to see more of these revelations made public as criticism of the previous administration mounts."
© 2009 by Justice Putnam
and Mechanisches-Strophe Verlagswesen
(previously cross posted at The Justice Department and was rescued at Daily Kos)
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Another satiric piece that addresses the issue of false confessions issued by torture for political gain; and the extent that those who use torture will go to justify their actions.
Nice one! I highly recommend Jonathan Miller’s interview with Dawkins in the Atheism Tapes series spun off of A Brief History of Disbelief, by the way.
Thank you for that, I have heard that interview and it is great to be linked to it from here.
The link I introduced above goes to the beginning of episode 1 part 1 of the Disbelief series. Here’s the beginning section of the proper interview with Dawkins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD0WbP0Q0Oc
And, indeed, we know the church establishment considered it a threat to them for one to express doubts. Miller was, in part, motivated by the reaction in the U.S. after 9/11 to pursue the series.
I should state that I am using Dawkins as a foil to advance my story; the story has less to do with Dawkins than it does with the whole issue of torture. I thought Dawkins would be an extreme example of what a false confession could be.
Sort of like Galileo without fealty to the Church.
We have idiots parsing what is or is not torture, we hear the sadistic glee in the utterings of those who planned and ordered torture, who prolonged the torture until they heard what they wanted to hear; we have pundits and legislators pleading to not look back and to ignore that man behind the curtain.
It is a Bizzaro world, indeed!
Yes, I understood your point, but decided to use the opportunity to spread the red menace and bodily fluids vs. fluoridation.
Dawkins is a hero of sorts for me.
And make that, “precious bodily fluids,” Col. Jack D. Ripper would have it no other way!
Thanks. I was struggling to remember the bit you put back.
I liked what I’ve heard from Dawkins. What would you recommend for reading, by him?
Outside of the two books I site in the story, I think River out of Eden and Climbing Mount Improbable are worthy reads.
So, the two mentioned in the post are your top choices. Right. I think maybe the title is not attracting as much attention as it should. That’s a shame, but par for the course. Can’t be helped.
I think I’m getting rec’s because I’m still on the reader wire.
Thanks!
That’s true. Perhaps they don’t realize how improbable this is and what force torture would have to have to pull it off.