It's funny for a while, and then it just gets sickening. Long story short, I wound up wasting half an hour of valuable study time emailing this backwater Baptist motherfucker (pictured here in all his waxy/corpsey self-righteous glory):
"Dear Mr Paley,
I am a first year undergraduate student of English and philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. I wanted to share with you something we academics quickly learn upon arrival at such a highly-regarded and culturally-diverse university as this one, and that is the concept of objectivity, and furthermore, the idea of tolerance.
Of course, I am a “loopy Darwinist,” but I have always understood the idea of Creationism and allowed my Creationist friends to maintain their beliefs without preaching my “evil Evolutionist doctrine” to them. I do this because it is respectful, and true scholars are expected to be objective and to give concepts like religion and Creationism fair consideration despite our personal opinions. With that in mind, I have to say that I find your expressions of Creationist thought to be offensive, narrow-minded, and unintelligent; you are violating the academic credo not by promoting your Creationist beliefs, but by smugly attacking the Evolutionist viewpoint—a move that I deem cowardly, immature, and ultimately quite dangerous.
You, Mr Paley, are promoting a Christian-centric brand of hate and superiority. Sharing the “Word” with people is one thing—Christianity's high point is that it encourages hope and love, which I always think the world could use more of—but spouting insults against Evolutionists and including dramatic oversights on your arrogant blog (for example, the haphazard paraphrasing of that article on Nessie and circus elephants) is uncalled for and disgusting. You may dismiss my letter as some sort of demonized heretical rambling, but I am not preaching about the validity of Evolutionism; I am speaking towards human decency. Whether you like it or not, the members of your church are grouped together with all the Bhuddists, all the atheists, all the Jews, and all the indigenous “tribal” people of the world under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I’d like to remind you, now, of Article 1:
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” (http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html)
Mr Paley, you need to work on your spirit of brotherhood because you are setting a horrible example for your followers. We are all human, and your conduct is remarkably undignified and unacceptable in the year 2007, especially in these "academic" circles you claim to be a part of. Are your beliefs so threatened by contemporary society that you feel these measures are somehow justified?
Or maybe you feel that Hitler was an instrument of God too? I’m curious to know your thoughts on genocide because your slander is just a stone’s throw away. Maybe we atheists are wrong (and maybe you are too), but we all ought to agree that hate is never justified.
Sincerely,
(Me)"
Let it be known that if any fanatical missionary approaches me at a mall while I'm Christmas (pardon me, "Santamas") shopping, they're going to be leaving with my snow boots embedded in their face. (But don't tell "Dr" Paley that; it ruins my whole angle).
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