Right-wing Christian apologist and American Family Radio host Alex McFarland appeared on TheDove TV recently to explain that belief in evolution is the root cause of racism in America today.

The Bible teaches that there is only one race, the human race, and that all people are made in the image of God, McFarland said, so logically people who hold racist views must be getting those ideas from elsewhere.

Apparently unaware that slavery existed long before Darwin wrote “On the Origin of Species,” McFarland laughably asserted that the Founding Fathers knew that all men are created equal and blamed “150 years of Darwinian evolution” for supposedly undermining that core American principle.

“Evolution, for about 75 years, has had a stranglehold on American education,” McFarland declared, “and so the number one reason for racism is belief in evolution.”