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Paula Bolyard<\/a> – July 12, 2021<\/p>\n In a silly non-scientific op-ed at Scientific American<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Allison Hopper declares that \u201cdenial of evolution\u201d is a form of \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d No, it\u2019s not a satire piece. It\u2019s a bigoted anti-Christian rant masquerading as a science op-ed. In it, Hopper, whose bio says she\u2019s a \u201cfilmmaker and designer,\u201d claims that \u201cevolution denial\u201d perpetuates violence against black people:<\/p>\n I want to unmask the lie that evolution denial is about religion and recognize that at its core, it is a form of white supremacy that perpetuates segregation and violence against Black bodies. Under the guise of \u201creligious freedom,\u201d the legalistic wing of creationists loudly insists that their point of view deserves equal time in the classroom. Science education in the U.S. is constantly on the defensive against antievolution activists who want biblical stories to be taught as fact. In fact, the first wave of legal fights against evolution was supported by the Klan<\/a>\u00a0in the 1920s. Ever since then, entrenched racism and the ban on teaching evolution in the schools have gone hand in hand. In his piece,\u00a0What We Get Wrong About the Evolution Debate<\/a><\/em>, Adam Shapiro argues that \u201cthe history of American controversies over evolution has long been entangled with the history of American educational racism.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n The biblical view of creation\u2014that God created the Earth, including man, out of nothing (ex nihilo<\/em>) in six days\u2014wasn\u2019t invented in the 1920s when secularists were forced to go \u201con the defensive\u201d against religious activists. It was the secularists, in fact, who went on the attack, portraying orthodox Christians as anti-science backwoods yahoos and bullying school districts and book publishers into removing all references to religion\u2014not just creationism\u2014from public schools. The anti-God mob has been on offense in this fight from Day 1. Hopper\u2019s assertion that \u201crejection of evolution\u201d (by that she means macroevolution, rather than microevolution, which Christians do not reject) is overtly racist doesn\u2019t pass the smell test.<\/p>\n https:\/\/pjmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paula Bolyard – July 12, 2021 In a silly non-scientific op-ed at Scientific American, Allison Hopper declares that \u201cdenial of evolution\u201d is a form of \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d No, it\u2019s not a satire piece. It\u2019s a bigoted anti-Christian rant masquerading as a science op-ed. In it, Hopper, whose bio says she\u2019s a \u201cfilmmaker and designer,\u201d claims … Continue reading Now Belief in Creationism Is ‘White Supremacy.’ News Flash: We Won’t Bow to Your Secular Idols<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[16009,16008,175,177,2767,14281],"class_list":["post-20007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning","tag-evolution-denial","tag-allison-hopper","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-evolution","tag-white-supremacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5cH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20009,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20007\/revisions\/20009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}