Fox Nation presenter Lara Logan is no stranger to controversy and this week she sparked another one, by suggesting that Charles Darwin's trailblazing theory of evolution by natural selection was no less than a Jewish-funded hoax.
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According to Media Matters for America research and information center, Logan questioned the origins of Darwinism during a Monday interview on And We Know, which the report defined as a "conspiracy theorist podcast" affiliated with QAnon.
She went on to suggest that Darwin was paid by the prominent Jewish Rothschild family to invent the theory he introduced in the 19th century.
"What is the only thing on Earth that is actually renewable? It's life. And they can, you know, go back to the big-bang theory and Darwin. I mean, when I found out, does anyone know when, who employed Darwin? Where Darwinism comes from? Well, I mean, you know, look it up. The Rothschilds," she said.
Tying the British government to her theory, Logan added, "It goes right back to 10 Downing Street and the same people who employed Darwin and that's when Darwin, you know, wrote his theory of evolution and so on and so on. And I'm not saying that none of that is true."
Arguing that the issue of evolution is a chicken-or-egg debate that cannot be settled scientifically, she said, "I'm just saying Darwin was hired by someone to come up with the theory. Right? Based on evidence. OK, fine, but even the people, the scientists, all of the people who can take you back to the Big Bang [Theory], what is the one question they can never, ever, ever answer? They can never tell you what that was. Whether it is the molecules or the energy, or, you know, all that stuff."
The Rothschilds are one of the most high-profile Jewish families in history. They became prominent in the late 18th century and the wealth and influence they wielded made them the subject of numerous antisemitic conspiracy theories about "Jews taking over the world."
Logan's last controversy saw her compare Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the US president to infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who performed inhumane experiments on Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
Newsweek noted that Logan was "sidelined by Fox News after she compared Fauci to Mengele," and that she as "also dropped by her talent agency over the 'highly offensive' and 'unacceptable' comments she made" about the president's top adviser.
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