Georgia Rep. Paul Broun spoke recently Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell and had these enlightening words for the flock:

God‘s word is true. I’ve come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior.

I would understand if Broun might claim that evolution and the Big Bang were from the “pit of hell” given his particularly nutty brand of rightwing skulduggery, but as a medical doctor, he would say that embryology, “the science dealing with the formation, development,structure, and functional activities of embryos”  is of the devil? Just bizarre. Even more peculiar, this supposed anti-scientific lawmaker sits on the state’s House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Oh, the irony.