Those irrational rationalists- or look, Richard Dawkins! It's Bigfoot!

Matt Damon reads an obviously phony email allegedly from Sarah Palin on a late night talk show that calls dinosaurs "Satan's lizards."

Bill Maher contrasts the rationality of Christian believers six days a week with their going to church on Sunday and "believing that they're drinking the blood of a two thousand year old space god."

Richard Dawkins trumpets the alleged irrationality of religious beliefs, mustering the mighty power of the logical non sequitur in defense of his pious atheistic faith (and no, that phrase is assuredly not an oxymoron). Nowhere does he ever acknowledge the logical impossibility of proving a negative; his atheism is strictly a matter of sola fide.

Even while its political wing, the Democratic Party, gropes blindly for ways to mend fences with an imaginary post-modern constituency called "people of faith" (with no clue whatsoever that it's only in the content  of their faith that such people can find any real commonality), the Left frequently treats orthodox religious belief as a species of primitive superstition.

But Mollie Ziegler Hemingway has done some research, and come up with something interesting. Guess who are the most likely to believe in pseudo-science and the paranormal?

Hint: It ain't fundamentalist Christians!

Of course, I've already noted Nancy Pelosi's and Joe Biden's unwitting rejection of modern biology in favor of that of the Middle Ages in a vain attempt to reconcile their Catholicism with their inherently pagan views on the subjects of abortion and fetal stem cell research. Thanks, Mollie, for calling my attention to an enlightening article further illustrating the gullibility of the pseudo-sophisticates among us.

G.K. Chesterdon was exactly right: he who chooses not to believe in God will end up believing just about anything.

And the same is true of those who chose to reject God's wisdom on the subject of basic ethical questions in favor of their own.

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