TPM:

Bryan Fischer, a conservative radio host and an official with the American Family Association, compared Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), to a rape victim Tuesday, after Akin’s controversial comments about “legitimate rape” prompted a wave of outrage toward the Missouri Senate candidate.

“You talk about a forcible situation, you talk about somebody being a victim of forcible assault, that would be Todd Akin,” Fischer said.

When a physicist attempts to integrate the mathematics of the very large (Einstein) with the mathematics of the extremely small (Bohr), the numbers go crazy, nonsensical infinities are spewed out. Something like this happens when GOP Christians attempt to integrate their ideas about the world and the standard scientific understanding of the world: nonsense spews out. The difference is that the mathematics of the large does make sense on its own and is not self-referential, as does the mathematics of the tiny. It's only when they are brought together that things go crazy. With GOP Christians, their ideas only makes sense to them and are self-referential. As a consequence, GOP Christians can seem to sound sane (a fetus has a right to live), as long as what they are saying is not integrated with the standard scientific understanding of reality. When this happens, when the two are forced into one, we get statements like this: Legitimate rape victims rarely get pregnant.