"Carson's ideas about the Big Bang are quite similar to his beliefs about Islam, in that he picked up a snippet of information somewhere -- there's a passage in the Koran that says this or that, there's a thing called entropy -- and that snippet seemed to take hold of his rational faculties and beat them to a pulp."
— Waldman, Paul
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Date
September 23, 2015
Metaphor
"Carson's ideas about the Big Bang are quite similar to his beliefs about Islam, in that he picked up a snippet of information somewhere -- there's a passage in the Koran that says this or that, there's a thing called entropy -- and that snippet seemed to take hold of his rational faculties and beat them to a pulp."
Metaphor in Context
Carson's ideas about the Big Bang are quite similar to his beliefs about Islam, in that he picked up a snippet of information somewhere -- there's a passage in the Koran that says this or that, there's a thing called entropy -- and that snippet seemed to take hold of his rational faculties and beat them to a pulp.
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Citation
Paul Waldman, "How is Ben Carson Both so Incredibly Smart and so Spectacularly Stupid?" The Week (September 23, 2015). <Link to theweek.com>
Date of Entry
09/24/2015
