So PZ Meyers decided to touch on the (by now, I expect) infamous Ray Comfort's most recent drop of ignorant inanity in his already sizable online swamp. For convenience, the bewilderingly dumb collection of words is as follows:
Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through "asexuality" ("without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs"). Each of them split in half ("Asexual organisms reproduce by fission (splitting in half)." Ask A Scientist, Biology Archive, http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99927.htm.)
Shocking, eh?
Meyers covers the usual bases in his response: he describes our actual evolutionary history - chock full of that fun and productive pastime the whole way through - and finishes with the usual acknowledgment that creationists, requiring some way to self-assuredly disbelieve in evolution, are woefully, stubbornly ignorant of its every nuance.
None of this was, of course, necessary. Though surprisingly measured for Meyers, I don't think this sort of response was fitting. I think my initial response is still the best:
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