I KNEW IT

I KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. OK first of all [edited for impressionable young A&A fanz] Aly and AJ for ruining my 100th post celebrations. Second, my hatred of these two evangelist fear-mongers is well-documented, so I say to the world I TOLD YOU SO.

But in this month's issue of Blender, or so I'm told, we get a nice pull quote from one of the Michalka sisters: "I think evolution is silly."

Oh man oh man, when I get my hands on that article I am going to read the hell out of it, even if it means purchasing Blender.

More to come very soon.

EDIT: Got it...

Of note, Aly and AJ claim of "I Am One of Them": "God put it in [our] hearts."

Throughout dinner -- where we're joined by the girls' dad, Mark, who owns a successful contracting company -- kidnapping comes up in coversation. Carrie says that when the girls were invited to a party Elton John was giving, she sent a body guard with them, because "if they got in someone else's car, I could never see them again." Hollywood, mom and daughters agree, is "full of freaks." Later on, Aly pets her big black dog Saint vigorously (they're about to get two puggle pups, too), and says he's there to protect them from "perverts."

You're home-schooled girls in a gated suburb -- why are you so afraid of kidnapping?

"It's not a fear of ours," Aly says."We just want people to be aware. You could live in a nice neighborhood and there could be some perv there. You never know."

[...]

Given the pronounced Christian overtones in the home-schooling movement, we can't help but ask the girls for their thoughts on that cultural hot potato, intelligent design.

Do you believe in evolution?

"No," AJ says, shaking her head and frowning.

"Wait," Aly says, bolting forward. "Are they teaching that in schools now?"

They've been teaching it for the better part of a century.

"I think that's kind of disrespectful," Aly says. "Anything that has to do with anybody's beliefs on religion, that should stay out of the classroom. I mean, I think people should be able to pray in school, if people were into that. Everybody should just do their own gig."

"Evolution is silly," AJ adds. "Monkeys? Um, no."

Read the article here: Page 1 and Page 2

EDIT: Now available online here.