Rafael and Ted Cruz Are Not Evidence Based Humans

Rafael Cruz: LGBT rights and evolution are communist brainwashing lies to kill God

By David Edwards
Monday, November 4, 2013 15:00 EST

Rafael Cruz, the father of tea party-backed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), has warned Americans that equal rights for LGBT people and the theory of evolution are essentially communist lies that are being used by the American government to destroy the family and control the population.

In a June presentation to the Dean Bible Ministries Men’s Prayer Breakfast, Cruz encouraged attendees to become part of the political process.
“You know, communism or socialism, whatever you want to call it, what is happening in this country is not different than what happened in Cuba,” he explained. “It is about government control of your lives. You got to realize how Marxist, how socialism works… When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. Did you know that?”
“The whole objective is the destruction of the traditional family, it has nothing to do with homosexuals, they could care less about homosexuals, they want to destroy the family,” Cruz added.
The Republican senator’s father went on to say that marriage equality was “just like evolution.”
“I’ve met so many Christians that tell me, ‘Evolution is a scientific fact.’ Baloney!” he exclaimed. “I am a scientist, there is nothing scientific about evolution. But you know something, Karl Marx said it, ‘I can use the teachings of Darwin to promote communism.’ Why? Because communism, or call it socialism if you think communism is too hard a word, necessitates for government to be your god and for government to be your god they need to destroy the concept of God.”
“That’s why communism and evolution go hand and hand. Evolution is one of the strongest tools of Marxism because if they can convince you that you came from a monkey, it’s much easier to convince you that God does not exist,” Cruz insisted.


Really? Is god so weak?

Where does one start with someone that has knowledge from a century ago.  We expect such in countries like Iraq, or the poorest parts of South America or Africa.  But, how does someone in America avoid the knowledge that is readily available on the Internet ... admittedly, a lot of it is faulty, but it is not that hard to sort out what the smartest and most educated believe and why they believe it, i.e., the evidence for their beliefs.

To dismiss something because it is called a theory, i.e., the theory of evolution is to completely misunderstand the basis of a scientific theory.  A theory embodies, or attempts to embody all the evidence on a given subject in a consistent story.  Atomic theory lead to the atomic bomb that blew up two cities in Japan and to nuclear power plants that furnish about a third of the electricity in America. Theories can be pretty powerful, no?

I know the way humans have been raised, especially in America, it is hard to believe that two of the great apes, Chimpanzees and Bonobos have less than 2% genetic difference with a human.  They are more than 98% the same as humans.  From Wikepedia:

Similarity to humans[edit]

Bonobos are capable of passing the mirror-recognition test for self-awareness,^[56] as are all great apes. They communicate primarily through vocal means, although the meanings of their vocalizations are not currently known. However, most humans do understand their facial expressions^[18]and some of their natural hand gestures, such as their invitation to play. Two bonobos at the Great Ape Trust, Kanzi and Panbanisha, have been taught how to communicate using a keyboard labeled with lexigrams (geometric symbols) and they can respond to spoken sentences. Kanzi's vocabulary consists of more than 500 English words^[57] and he has comprehension of around 3,000 spoken English words.^[58] Kanzi is also known for learning by observing people trying to teach his mother; Kanzi started doing the tasks that his mother was taught just by watching, some of which his mother had failed to learn. Some, such as philosopher and bioethicist Peter Singer, argue that these results qualify them for "rights to survival and life" — rights that humans theoretically accord to all persons. (See great ape personhood.) 

An argument commonly posed is that there are missing links between these two great apes and humans.  Bonobos will soon be extinct becoming another species to disappear leaving gaps in evolution between the species that survive and us humans. Of course, fossil remains of pre-humans are somehow dismissed as qualifying as evidence. Admittedly, I am not an expert on evolution but the information to become an expert is there for anyone to examine.  Short of that, one can do like I do and trust fellow human scientists who have studied it all their lives and accept them at their word.  An alternative is to believe tens of thousands of scientists over half a dozen generations have conspired to deceive us for some common cause, per Rafael Cruz and perhaps Ted Cruz. 

So, why do we care what the Tea-Party fanatics think? Because fanatics always lead the majority away from common sense solutions to our social(e.g., gay rights, racial, marriage, etc.) and technical problems (e.g., stem cell research, robots, shorter work weeks, etc.) and slow adoption of needed reforms by believing people are inherently evil, especially the ones that do not agree with them.  And in believing humans are inherently evil, they distort our nation's response to those that are weak, needy, and in need of our help for whatever reason.  


For example, those that believe man is inherently evil blame those on welfare for not working when the more serious problem of anemic job creation is destroying the middle class.   They cut food stamps when more people than ever in my life time are starving and homeless in this country.  They push against gun control and even counting dead bodies in this country and let the children involved in mass shootings pay the price.  They don't recognize the leading cause of violence is violence, instead it is evil people responding inappropriately when they have their friends killed. 

In short, people that take fanatical stands like Cruz are not evidence based people.  They are self-righteous people that believe they are the chosen people who own the truth.  They are very dangerous people in our society.  They are very similar to the religious fanatics in the Middle east.