Ekzept mentioned this series in the comments, and I definitely will try to catch this Ape to Man program on the History Channel tomorrow. It could be cheesy, it could be informative, but one thing is for sure, it has drawn out the creationists. The History Channel has a forum on the program, and it's jam-packed with the usual fallacies. It also a few examples of ignorance that will turn your stomach.

I don't want to be black and I don't want to be an ape.

I think that a lot of this so called science supports a leftist agenda. I am proud of being a white man we have conquered the whole earth and brought forth a civilization unparalleled in history. Yet all we get is grief about how we stole everything speak with forked tongues and all kinds of crap such as this. Yet no one has a problem with using and even coveting the white mans technology no one is ever clamoring to move from an all white neighborhood because of the crime. On the contrary we have made great strides in excepting other races and religions among us. How many races if in control of the world could have done better. No one ever speaks of the great comfort that the powerful white nations gives to those who would be attacked and torn to pieces if it wasn't for white men protecting them from extinction, brought on many times by their own races and cultures. Instead we are made to feel that we caused all other races to be crime ridden. Recently it has been discovered that British have changed very little since the last ice age could this mean we white people were always white. I mean how disgusted would a black man be to know that his race was once white it sure takes all the pride out of your race and then to even suggest we all were lower forms of life like a damn monkey. If being proud of my own race, "I have no right as a white person to have such pride", makes me a racists I guess I am a racists. Since I have been so bold as to suggest this, I would also like to know more about the Nazi's, did they have a point about jewish businessmen losing the first world war for them? Heaven forbid someone actually take an indepth look at this question for fear of being called a racist. While I find what the Nazi's did unbelievably evil, as I am a christian and believe that the Jews are Gods chosen people. As I find something's that christians have done such as witch burning's evil. I find the money grubbing of some Jews just as evil and I want to know how much truth is their to it how much propaganda do they lay down in our country manipulating our opinions with this money. No one likes feeling as if they are getting ones side of the story and being made a fool of as to what the facts are. Just to say the Nazi's were evil and leave it at that is not history its jewish propaganda. There must have been some kind of reason for such hate did the snow white innocent jew just move into germany become hated for just being a jew, and become persecuted for nothing more than a religious belief. I don't think this is the way it happen usually something provokes people's thinking. I want to know ALL the history of this subject and I don't like feeling like I could be being duped by paid for jewish propaganda. In the same way that the indigenous people of America were just known as evil savage indians until recently when our people had to own up to some injustices performed against them, when is something like this going to happen for the german people?

Charming, huh? The whole forum is cluttered with nonsense like this. Another:

The deception

In response to those that think evolution real and valid. I've read many of your posts with with total embarrassment and disgust. Evolution and great ages, is one of the biggest deceptions ever conjured up to deceive people. When one really studies it and does not blindly accept it, evolution is impossible and does not make sense. Fact is we are not some cosmic accident, some higher form of "animal" we are wonderfully made. Look around you and at yourself. Take for example your eyes or your brain, (yes, my wife and I DO use ours) or the conception and birth of a child. What about an egg, then into a caterpillar, then into a butterfly or what about how the earth is placed just so in out solar system. A degree too close to the sun, we fry, a degree too far away, we freeze. All these things are the results of chance, mere accident? Hardly. Many scientists and professors don't blindly, stupidly accept macro-evolution. They know it is bogus…

And it just goes on and on from there. It's stunning, in its own way—I don't think I've ever seen such a high density of stupidity since I read the Wizbang blog. I'm not even going to try to deal with it now; I'll wait until the program is aired, and maybe there will be some specific issues that can be dealt with other than that generic angry creationist cluelessness.