Kenneth Smith, the West Virginia man suing multiple figures in the United States educational establishment over his daughter’s education, wrote not one, but two, self-published books that would replace The Origin of Species and illuminate “how DNA really works.”
Smith, who is suing West Virginia for teaching his daughter evolution — he contends that it will “hinder” her dreams of becoming a veterinarian — makes a number of very bold claims in his books, including the claim that black people are the byproduct of Cain shacking-up with gorillas.
George McCready Price’s racist step-child
One of the first anti-evolution advocates was Canadian George McCready Price, a Seventh Day Adventist who published the anti-evolution/pro-creationist books Illogical Geology and God’s Two Books: Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible. While he died in 1963, Price’s books had a big impact on the burgeoning movement of Young Earth Creationism.
What Price did for Young Earth Geology, Smith attempted to do for Young Earth Genetics.
Unfortunately, Smith’s two books, Thoroughbred from the Genetic Normal and The True Origin of Man, run into a little problem even before one gets into the “science” of them: Smith is a self-aggrandizing, utterly clueless, raving, unhinged lunatic racist.
Kenneth Smith, “Geneticist”
In 2008, Smith published his first book, Thoroughbred from the Genetic Normal. He claimed his book would be a “direct replacement” for The Origin of Species, but after three years of obscurity, in 2011, Smith filed a complaint against the West Virginia Post Master General, the director of the National Institute of Health, and the United States Secretary of Education, claiming that he had “attempted on several occasions to contact NIH officials regarding his theory” but was “ignored.”
In the complaint, Smith said that he wanted “to have his book used in the public school system” but through their actions, “all three federal agencies have damaged him by failing to consider his genetic theory and are preventing him from untold revenue.”
Smith, undaunted, published a second book in 2013 called The True Origins of Man. This book, which is largely a retread of his first text, covering the same ideas and concepts, is available in part on Google Books.
100% White is 100% Human
In both his book and his 2011 complaint, Smith claims to have discovered “the missing link between human and ape,” a theory that no longer holds much credibility among modern evolutionary biologists.
Smith’s ideas for what qualify as the “missing link,” however, ran dangerously close to the sort of anti-evolutionary Theosophism that informed Nazi racial policies. Cry Godwin if you will; in his second book, The True Origins of Man, Smith actually makes that case that black people are descended from Cain after Cain had sex with a gorilla:
Cain followed the young courting female ape into the thick brush of the forest. You could see him looking back behind himself, to see if anyone might be looking. He saw no one, but God was there; he saw Cain at his lowest point of humanity. Then the bushes started to shake while he and that ape moaned and groaned to the point of exhaustion. Cain fornicated with an animal, a practice some men still carry on today.
According to Smith, Cain “found it easier and easier to lie with apes when he became aroused and less remorse to make his conscious ache.”
One day, Smith says, Cain “came face-to-face with his own shame” when he found a half-man, half-ape newborn being nursed.
It’s at this point where we learn what Smith means when he complains about evolution not being backed up by “math”:
DNA states 100% human + 0 combined with 100% primate +0 = 100/2 = 50 +100/2 = 50 for a fused genome of 50/50% human, primate offspring produced. Cain became transfixed with ignominy in his tracks and then he bolted like before, when God had banished him from the homeland of his people.
Cain would eventually take one of his half ape/half human daughters and produce a whole lineage with her:
‘As thou hast taken Eve from the flesh of Adam, to create him a wife and companion. Now thou hast created from the flesh of Cain a wife, and companion.’ Then, as it says in (Genesis 4:17), Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant, giving birth to Enoch. DNA states that 100% + 50 human, combined with 50% primate + 0 = 150/2 +50/2 = 75/25% human, primate genome offspring produced. He was born with ebony-colored skin, and curly black hair on his head with eyes dark as black pearls.
“This,” he concludes, “is the lineage of Adam and Eve.”
Incest, bestiality, zoophilia, specious mathematics, and questionable biology; it’s not the erotic Bible fan-fiction we need but, apparently, it is the one we deserve.
Smith’s book claims that two of Cain’s descendants were taken aboard the Ark and then married off, thus explaining the races, meaning that the Whiter you are, the closer to Adam and Eve you are. Remember this next time someone claims evolution is racist.
But wait, it gets much stranger — turns out that Mr. Smith himself is African-American. Below is a purported video of him reading from his book:
Featured image via John Scalzi on Flickr
““the
child’s mother urged him to ask Perry about evolution. “I hear your mom
was asking about evolution and, you know, it’s a theory that’s out there,”
Perry told the boy. “It’s got some gaps in it, but in Texas we teach both
creationism and evolution in our public schools, because I figure you’re smart
enough to figure out which one is right.” If Perry is correct about Texas
schools teaching creationism and evolution side-by-side, however, the public
schools in his states would be violating federal law.
The Supreme Court in 1987 ruled in Edwards v. Aguillard that teaching
creationism in public schools violates the Constitution’s Establishment Clause
and by ” “moving public school funds over to religious schools. Teach the
children how the loch ness monster was saved by Noah’s Ark and Earth was made
in 7 days (including rest). Our students will be laughed at throughout the
world. Just look at the lack of empathy, compassion for children, disabled, and
for those without insurance. Too bad we can’t legislate morality.” At a time
when American students’ science and math tests scores rank near the bottom of
industrialized countries, the last thing we need is another roadblock to
preparing our children for success.
reason why conditioning minor children into
and superstitious/religious belief should be a felony. It is child abuse and
destroys ability to think critically for life.
Do you really want to throw away God? Your funerals must be a real blast.
These is no god. There never has been. It’s ALWAYS been some who would control others and their diseased paranoia and self loathing. Ignorant and repressed is no way to live. Get mental health care.
We need to teach school children bullshit because you’re afraid at funerals?
You can’t ‘throw away’ something that doesn’t exist.
At least not in the childish form you perceive it as.
Why not actually learn about atheists, rather than repeat whatever you read in a Chick tract or on an ‘atheists are evil’ website?
Really? That’s what you think? Wow…
1Corinthians 2:14
Using your particular religion’s holy book to prove your particular religion’s spiritual superiority. Oh, how very convincing.
You religZELOTS crack me up…….
I think the state teaching children that they are no more than an accident of nature should be criminal. Maybe that’s why suicide, drug addiction and promiscuity are so prevalent. The state has and continues to commit a crime against human nature. By denying the soul and raising up our children like they are plants they have denied them the critical human needs of purpose, hope and truth..
O K AND I think that teaching them MAGIC and superstition SHOULD BE A CRIME a felony in fact…
So no professing Christian (or Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jew, etc) has ever committed suicide, become addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, or been sexually promiscuous?
If the only thing keeping you from being a sexually promiscuous drug addict and murderer is your religious faith, it’s no wonder you think that atheists are evil scum.
Evolution is not “an accident of nature.” That comment proves just how ignorant many americans are about science. Raising children like plants? What kind of distortion of scientific teaching is that? Also, any attempt to link teaching science in schools to suicide, drug addiction and promiscuity is completely absurd especially when examining the statistics of this country. Let’s take your claim of promiscuity, for instance. Statistics shows that promiscuity including children born out of wedlock is more prevalent in states where are traditionally called the Bible Belt which a heavy emphasis on Christian Values. Where there is education, there are fewer children suffering from all of the problems you cited. Spouting unsubstantiated rhetoric proves nothing. You have no facts or data to back up anything you’ve written here. And your misrepresentations of science are evidence of your obvious lack of proper education.
“Unsubstantiated rhetoric” is what you are spouting. Along with hate. “Science” has become your god. You worship the creation, but not the Creator.
Some people will do and say anything for money.
Well, isn’t that the way human evolution is explained? So where is the problem if you believe in evolutionary ideology which is based in faith on a theory?
First of all, look up the words, “ideology” and “theory”. Second, evolution is backed up by a mountain of empirical, quantifiable data from not only one scientific discipline, but many. Biology, geology, paleontology, all point towards evolution. Creationism is based on a violent bronze age myth about a woman and an apple, with absolutely no evidence to back it up.
Michael Powers, In fact, evolution is not backed by quantifiable, empirical evidence at all. I am certain you would be incapable of explaining any of that evidence here in this forum. Just because someone says it is so does not make it so and many intellectuals consider themselves at the very least agnostic. While I agree after studying biology and life I see evidence for micro evolution I do not see evidence for macro evolution .Additionally, greater than 75% of the world’s population consider themselves “spiritual”. (I would venture to say closer to 90%). Indeed the “instructions” for how life organizes itself (DNA) reveals considerable order and intelligence. And of course the theory of “evolution” deals only with the origin of life. It does not even begin to broach the study of the physical world (the atmosphere, geology, wind and ocean currents etc. What is the theory for the origins of matter (purposeful, dynamic matter)? The study of science reveals the Creator it does not replace Him.
Why would I offer proof to those who place no value in such things? It’s an exercise in futility.
You need to get an education. Refusing to accept fact is worse than your idiot reliance on myth.
She needs meds & a quiet room…
You do not understand the word ‘theory.’ Acceptance, not belief is based on MOUNTAINS of research and FACT. NOT the drug addled ramblings of illiterate goat herding shamans.
Your premise is wrong from the start — which is what’s wrong with all creationists. Evolution isn’t based in “faith.” It’s based on observations and evidence.
el fin, janine told the truth, you, told a lie…erasmus darwin, a high ranking free mason, came up with the mind wash for the millennium, no one was around to observe creation, and there is NO evidence to support this THEORY. there is a reason why so many are being deceived. if you truly have never had a moment when God has entered your life through either the beauty of His Creation, or His comfort in a time of your disparity, it could be that your spirituality has been shifted over to the other ONE who is vying for your soul….and you all are one of many who will not get past the narrow gate. and lying and teaching that evolution is science FACT, is way more dangerous than letting creation be taught as an alternative..i find that extraterrestrial participation to our existence to be far more of a possibility than evolution, and is more along in line with creation. and this is just my opinion….
I’M brainwashed? That would be funny if you weren’t so sad. There’s no evidence that Adam and Eve populated the globe through incest (with two sons, no less), and your openness to the idea of aliens populating the planet isn’t evidence, either. They’re just nice ideas that you want to believe, like your imaginary friend in your head who you feel comforts you when you’re upset. You’re welcome to entertain those fantasies, but please understand — they are not evidence. Sorry.
Oh…this guy is just a nutball.
WTF? How do these people survive to an age past, say ten? Although offensive since I believe human life firms came from Africa. That evolution is how all that is now. Was Gods plan. Until the continental drift. All of us were black and evolved from apes.
All complexion is, is a genetic adaptation to fit the place you live I until immigrating to other places. The less sun you are exposed to, the less melanin you need. The darker your eye color the more protected you are in tropical zones.
This a$$ needs to STFU, lose power over his daughter, and pay all court and legal fees for his asinine law suit.
Internalized racism is f’in sad.
It’s also sad that this guy’s mind has been so corrupted by fundamentalist religion that he cannot separate well-established facts with mountains of supporting evidence from fiction.
Gorillas are a different species therefore you can “lay” with them all day long and no offspring will be produced. Similar with shepherds and their sheep. Syphilis, yes, “sheeple”, no. (on second thought, hmmm)
SO are neanderthals,,,,
are you sure?
NO THEY ARE NOT. what an idiot. Up to 6% of our DNA is Neanderthal.
You can couch iin all the pseudoscientific terms you want, but it all reduces down to mysticism and superstition. There is no grand plan. Not Nothing to magically set things right at the end of the day. I fail to see why this incredible universe isn’t enough for some.
These “Maryland Farmers”are depraved and insane !!!!!!!!!!!!!
chrISIStianity = a cult based on fear, used to spread hatred, bigotry, and misogyny,,,,,,,,,,,
pity them,,,,,,,,,,
they revel in their ignorance,,,,,,,,,,
and glorify their stupidity,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
These people (creationists) are ignorant, and their beliefs are pure insanity. They will lose the case.
Cain and a gorilla? The ultimate example of pulling a statement right out of your a**.
“Divination” by rectomancy is all they have. 😛
Maybe it was just a really hairy girl who “identified” as a gorilla.
A mind really IS a terrible thing to waste.
He’s an idiot. We concluded, based on hard evidence, that ethnic Africans have less or no neanderthal DNA… and NO human has gorilla DNA because gorillas and humans CAN’T REPRODUCE.
I’ll bet he makes a great pet for the white supremacists.
Getting back to the article and story, the man definitely needs more bible study where he can learn about the story of Adam and Eve and their descendants and the family line of Cain. His wife was NOT a gorilla.
Self-hating black man.
Have any of you scientists done a study or testing on ‘seed after seed’ and ‘kind after kind’ If so what were your findings? Does it prove evolution? Nope!
But it’s a fact. Black people (and white people) ARE more or less related to gorillas and other similar species. If you look at the right sections of DNA you can’t tell us apart from chimps and bonobos either.