Will Evolution Weekend Sermons Discuss Alleged Murderer Amy Bishop?
| February 14, 2010 | Posted by scordova under Culture, Darwinism, Religion |
Today is the closing day of “Evolution Weekend”. The weekend is promoted by The clergy letter project. This is a weekend dedicated to glorifying Darwinism in churches.
Curiously one of the scientists on call to help clergy and parishioners promote the glories of Darwinism was Amy Bishop, she is listed here:
Name: Amy Bishop, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Address: Department of Biological Sciences
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL 35899
Areas of Expertise: neuroscience, molecular biology, genetics, evolution of the human brain
Email: ——[email protected]
Amy Bishop was charged in the murder of several people recently. Now, there are some very fine Darwinists like Francis Collins, and I don’t mean to say Amy Bishop is representative of all Darwinists. But I’d recommend that if the Clergy Letter Project wishes to put on a good face for Darwinism, they might consider disassociating themselves from Amy Bishop.
They may not want to promote “survival of the fittest” in their sermons today. That would be kind of poor taste in light of the fact a presumed societal degenerate (Bishop) is the “fittest” survivor while 3 (possibly 4) innocent victims are the “unfit” dead. Think I’m overstating the case against Darwinism? Consider what Evolutionary Psychologist David Buss argues in his book The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
murder is the product of evolutionary forces and that the homicidal act, in evolutionary terms, conveys advantages to the killer.
NOTES:
Here is the Fox10′s report on Amy Bishop Biology professor charged with murder
A biology professor at the University of Alabama’s Huntsville campus was charged with murder late Friday in the shooting deaths of three fellow biology professors at the campus….
Amanda Tucker, a junior nursing major from Alabaster, Ala., had Amy Bishop for anatomy about a year ago. Tucker said a group of students went to a dean complaining about Bishop’s performance in the classroom, and Tucker signed a petition complaining about Bishop.“When it came down to tests, and people asked her what was the best way to study, she’d just tell you, ‘Read the book.’ When the test came, there were just ridiculous questions. No one even knew what she was asking,’” said Tucker.
Andrea Bennett, a sophomore majoring in nursing, was in one of Bishop’s classes Friday morning.
Bennett said nothing seemed unusual, but she described Bishop as being “very weird” and “a really big nerd.”
“She’s well-known on campus, but I wouldn’t say she’s a good teacher. I’ve heard a lot of complaints,” Bennett said
There are also now questions about why liberal congressmen Delahunt (then a District Attorney for Braintree Massachusetts) had her released from police custody after shooting her brother in 1986. See: Professor Amy Bishop Shot & Killed Her Brother in 1986 Dem Rep. Delahunt Made Call to Release Bishop
A Massachusetts police chief is now saying that UAH shooting suspect Amy Bishop shot and killed her brother during an argument, and the case may have been mishandled by the police department more than two decades ago when the fatal shooting occurred.
The Boston Globe reported that Amy Bishop, a biology professor at UAH who is accused of shooting and killing three colleagues yesterday, accidentally shot her 18-year-old brother, Seth M. Bishop, in the abdomen with a 12-gauge shotgun in December 1986.
The report said Bishop was asking her mother, Judith, how to properly unload the gun when it when off and a shot struck Seth.
Braintree Police Chief Paul Frazier is now offering a different account of the shooting to The Globe: “Bishop had shot her brother during an argument and was being booked by police when the police chief at the time ordered the booking process stopped and Bishop released to her mother,” the paper reports on its Web site. Records from the case have been missing since 1987.
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Braintree officers who remember the 1986 shooting said that former police Chief John Polio dismissed detectives from the case and ordered the department to release Amy Bishop after a telephone conversation with former district attorney William Delahunt.Delahunt is currently a U.S. congressman from Massachusetts.
HT: my good friend Mike Gene for uncovering the book by David Buss and Amy Bishop’s entry in the Clergy Letter Project
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Sal, I disapprove of such name-calling.
Now let me ask you another question:
Do you approve of quoting an author out of context for the purposes of character aspersion? Do you approve of trying to make a theory seem wrong by attacking the person who came up with it rather than providing evidence that it’s wrong?
Yes, if done for humor like:
Darwin does not deserve to be de facto cannonized in churches by the Clergy Letter project.
No I don’t approve of that, and if you are accusing me of that you’re accusing me something that is not happening in this thread.
Criticizing Darwin’s character and life have nothing to do with weighing the merits or demerits of his theory.
That is not my purpose in showing Darwin’s less flattering side or that of Darwinists like Amy Bishop.
He and his ideas are being venerated in churhes, and I’m showing that this is objectionable for a variety of reasons. That’s all.
His theories will die on their own scientific demerits.
I’ve criticized his theory on scientific ground many times. And if you’re unable to grasp the the theoretical and empirical problems with Darwinism, that is your issue not mine.
Your lack of comprehension of the problems with Darwinism doesn’t give you liscense to accuse me of resorting to character assasination as a means of discrediting his supposed “science”.
scordova @153,
So by your actions, you’re permitting us to defame you provided it’s funny?