Incredible Dentists that Defy Intelligent Design

Because Ashley is the greatest girlfriend ever, and also because she shares my contempt for the pseudoscience of creationism/intelligent design, she brought home a DVD from the library last week entitled Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution, Vol. I. For we are drawn to that which offends us, likes moths to the flame. We watched it hoping for a laugh and a reminder of how very, very smart we are, and were not disappointed.

The video is the product of Dr. Jobe Martin, a Doctor of Dental Surgery who, in between teaching at dental school and performing prophylaxis on President Gerald Ford in the 1970s, stumbled quite accidentally on a shocking truth: the theory of evolution is totally wrong and, as it turns out, the creation account in the Book of Genesis is 100% literally true.

Did I mention Dr. Jobe Martin is a dentist? I don't point it out to disparage his dental career, or the field of dentistry in general; I would hope that a trained Doctor of Dental Surgery would at least know more about biology than I do. But how does a dentist with a theology degree decide he's qualified to disprove the central theory of biological science?

The cracks in evolutionary theory began to appear, says Dr. Jobe Martin DDS, when he was teaching a class at a dental college about the evolution of the tooth. One day he was approached by several students, who told him they did not accept evolution and that he should start looking into the evidence for creationism. Within a very short time, Dr. Martin (who, in a totally irrelevant detail, had recently become a born-again Christian) came to realize that evolution was impossible and that the Biblical creation story had to be true.