[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[WackySam]

If Jefferson were alive today, I’d bet he’d have equal disdain for the extremists on both sides of the argument.

[GunRunner]

Yes, Jefferson was a deist. Thanks for the update.

Also in the news, water is wet and the sky is blue.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

What’s sad is that to be an evolutionists, you basically have to believe that inanimate objects and non-sentient animals are capable of performing magic tricks.

[Ira_Louvin]

Thomas Jefferson ~ April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826

The Origin of Species published November 24, 1859

The fact that Thomas Jefferson died 33 years prior to the origination of the Evolutionary theory proves this entire article to be disingenuous, but then the Discovery Institute has never let a frivolous thing like facts get in the way.

Doesn’t the 9th commandment say something about spreading falsehoods?

[Ohioan]

I think that the author has bought the falsehood that Jefferson was somehow irreligious. That is simply not true. Jefferson was non-denominational, but certainly believed in basic Christian theological tenets. In fact, this is not only obvious from his many acknowledgments of the work of the Creator in his best known formal documents, it is even clearer in the one most relevant to the falsehood--his authorship of the act establishing religious freedom in Virginia--one of his three proudest accomplishments.

The act not only makes repeated references to the Creator, it justifies establishing religious liberty in Virginia on the fact that God is the author of human free will.

[Alter Kaker]

Oh yes, Thomas Jefferson, who died 34 years before Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of the Species” was so brilliant that he refuted each and every point made by Charles Darwin decades before Darwin had made them.

[Paradox]

Using this same logic, one could say that if Jefferson were still alive, he would still believe in the institution of Slavery.

[Cheburashka]

Thomas Jefferson rewrote the Bible to conform to his ideas of what it should say. You might want to get a copy of his version and make sure that he didn't delete entirely the story of Adam and Eve, and/or the Flood.

Next thing you'll be quoting the Koran, or the Bhagavad Gita.

[Pale]

Jefferson no doubt believed in the four humours, as well. So let us know when you come down with a serious infection, and we’ll make a housecall with our leeches and bleeding trays.

[Riodacat]

Any 5 year olds want to explain the problem to the Discovery Institute?

[ElectricStrawberry]

Teach ID all you want in public schools.....in a religious studies or philosophy class.

[r9etb]

Sheesh.... this is a ridiculous case of the fallacy of Appeal to Authority.

Whatever Thomas Jefferson might have had to say on the subject, we simply cannot take his word as definitive. His mere name is used as a red herring; it confers no scientific credibility ... especially given that Charles Darwin was only 14 years old at the time Jefferson said it.