You know Kirk Cameron. He was a 1980′s sitcom actor now playing the sitcom of real life as a mouthpiece for creationists. He is going to distribute copies of Darwin’s “Origin of Species” in November. It is the 150th anniversary of its publication. Cameron’s version has a nifty 50-page introduction letting the reader know a lot of neat things about Darwin. According to Cameron, he hated women and was a Nazi before his time.

Okay, that is an exaggeration, but Cameron says that the introduction he is distributing ties Hitler to evolution. I doubt if he mentions that Hitler also considered himself a Christian.

The parts that get me is Cameron’s statement in this video that kid can no longer “pray in public.” I assume he means they can’t “pray in public schools.” Ah, conveniently forgot the school part. Fortunately, we still have free speech laws that let you say what you want on Main Street or in a park.

However, Cameron also throws Einstein into the pot as a doubter of evolution. This is a blatant lie. Einstein did not call himself an atheist, but he doubted traditional religion. If you read his writings and listen to his statements, he is somewhere between a deist, pantheist and agnostic. I don’t know a bad word he ever said about Darwin or evolution.

I assume that if you believe creationism is the truth, then you believe that God wants you to lie, finagle and distort to get the word out.