It’s been a while since I’ve posted about Matt Powell, the budding hate-preacher who has said the government should execute gay people because the Bible says so, and that women should stop dressing like whores, and that “99% of school shootings are done by atheists,” and that it’s a “historical fact” that dinosaurs were killed in the Civil War, and that all atheists are “Coke-drinking video game addicts.”...
...In a bizarre video posted yesterday — in a suit, outdoors in the snow, because I guess he thinks it makes him look professional? — Powell attempted to talk some sense into Christians who accept evolution because he insists the two things are not compatible.
You know what? He’s right! Religion and science contradict each other in ways that can’t be reconciled!
In a really bizarre twist, though, he's almost kinda sorta right. The Smithsonian magazine has a long article about how "the ancestors of modern South American monkeys such as the capuchin and woolly monkeys first came to the New World by floating across the Atlantic Ocean on mats of vegetation and earth. " And it happened more than once.
Of course, the way he says it plays it for ridicule, implying that ancient primates had surfboards or some damn thing. Obviously somebody showed him a headline and he just took off from there.