Heavy-tweetin' ESPN baseball writer Keith Law has been noticeably silent for the last couple of days. That's no coincidence — he's been given a Twitter timeout by ESPN, and we're told that it's for loudly and repeatedly defending Charles Darwin from transitional fossil Curt Schilling, his Bristol colleague.An earlier link: Curt Schilling Has Disproved Evolution
Schilling, the former pitcher who rejoined ESPN as a baseball analyst in September after eight months away to deal with mouth cancer, took to Twitter on Nov. 12 to rail against evolution and in favor of creationism.
I'm a little scared to look too closely at this "debate".
(Though, as usual, the Deadspin comments on both articles are top notch.)
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His son is also a bit of an idiot.
"Are you trying to say that Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?"
I've also disagreed with Schilling's lame opinions, but he at least sounded like he had a brain in his head. Now I learn he's just a bleeding eejit.
"I did once see a workhorse evolved into a jackass."
FTW!
I have heard from various SoSHers that his Facebook is at times a cesspool of racist anti-Muslim rants/links. (I have not gone and checked it out myself.)
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