#2989: Steve Harvey

Celebrity loons! Broderick Stephen Harvey is an award-winning American comedian, television host, actor, writer, and producer who apparently hosts things like The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud, Family Feud Africa, Judge Steve Harvey, and (formerly) the Miss Universe competition. Harvey is also proudly religious, to the extent that he believes that those who don’t share his religious commitments can’t coherently be morally upstanding people. More importantly, Harvey rejects any piece of science that he doesn’t perceive to sit comfortably with his religious views, including, of course, evolution. Officially, Harvey rejects evolution on the grounds that it’s nonsense to think that the universe “spun out of a gastrous ball and then all of a sudden we were evolved from monkeys”, for if that were the case, says Harvey, then “why we still got monkeys?” So yes: Among all the stupid creationist arguments to pick from, Harvey went for the very dumbest one of them all.

 

Diagnosis: We suppose many Americans share his opinions, but they tend to have limited broadcasting opportunitites. And imagine getting the opportunity to talk about whatever’s important to you to a large audience and this is what you end up saying!