Darwin and Freedom from Religion?

The Evangelical Atheists known as Freedom From Religion Foundation celebrate Darwin's 200th birthday by making fun of religious belief.

The group Freedom From Religion Foundation bought advertising on billboards to celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th birthday. ("Secularist Group Buying Billboards to Honor Darwin") I don't have a problem with Charles Darwin. His theory of evolution has a lot of scientific merit and has produced a basis for modern evolutionary theory. Evolution and my religious beliefs are not at odds with each other.

The evangelical approach to the FFRF's billboard celebrating Darwin is irreverent humor that succeeds in being insulting, yet intolerant. With a design that includes stained glass and the phrase "Praise Darwin," written with an Old English script with an illuminated capital, the obvious relationship to scriptural text provides flaccid humor. It is the phrase, "Evolve Beyond Belief," however that is truly tasteless humor, with the clear implication that atheists are somehow better evolved and more biologically competitive than those who maintain non-atheistic beliefs.

The real joke is how duplicitous the message from the FFRF is. In effect, even in their attempt at jest, they command the belief in a godless system to replace belief in a god-ful system. What's funny to me is that in their poking fun at the religious for being believers, they fail to see that they are merely believing a replacement system based on their own god - a god fashioned after their own image. No, not a belief in Darwin as god, but rather holding a firm belief in a godless universe.

The problem is, they'll never understand the duplicity of their own billboard, nor will they get that the joke's on them.