We will probably be hearing a lot from David Barton in the coming weeks as he makes the rounds promoting his new book ” The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson.”
Technically, the book is not even supposed to be released until next week, but I have already received the copy I ordered and Chris Rodda has even read through it and produced a nearly two hour video debunking Barton’s claims.
Yesterday, Barton was a on “In The Market with Janet Parshall” where he spent the entire hour discussing his book and making many of the claims we have heard him make before. But Barton did make one interesting assertion when he was asked why public school textbooks don’t teach about the Founding Fathers and he blamed it on evolution:
We’ve taken the evolution thing and kept it as a science debate, and it’s not. Evolution [versus] creation is not a science, it is a worldview. If I take evolution and say you know, man’s always evolving, moving forward, then I’ve got to say well, then we need a Constitution that evolves and moves forward with us. And so we get a living Constitution whereby who cares what the Constitution says, here’s what we think about Obamacare or gay marriage or anything else.
If I take and apply [the evolutionary worldview] to history, I’d have to say that in public schools, history is the most worthless subject there is if you believe evolution because, if we are evolving, what can we learn from two hundred years ago? My gosh, those guys didn’t even have internet back then! They rode horses; let’s get up with the real century. And so under that worldview of evolution, history has got to be the first casualty. And it is, quite frankly.
