Today’s whopper comes courtesy of New Zealand’s The Hutt News. It seems that an award winning Wellington playwright, Arthur Meek, has produced a play called Collapsing Creation, which depicts a day in the life of Charles Darwin. The play’s premier occurred on February 12, Darwin’s birthday, but is being staged again for the anniversary of Origin of the Species.
Meek was interviewed by Rebecca Thomson for Hutt News in which he makes an outrageous and historically inaccurate statement:
“Darwin’s best friends were killed because of it [Origin of the Species], his health deteriorated, his family was torn apart — it’s a huge story.”
Darwin’s best friends were “killed” because of Origin of the Species? If that were true, we would have expected the evolutionary community to be howling this from the rooftops for the past 150 years! And, he’s not talking about his play!
You can read another interview, Genius scientist’s longest day, in which Meek repeats the same whopper, although he adds this rather bizarre statement: “…I decided early on that I wanted the play to be more about the truth than the facts.”
But, telling lies for Darwin is better than telling the truth or the facts!
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