Stacy and I watched the GOP presidential candidate debate yesterday and one question threw me. How can you be a serious presidential candidate and not believe in evolution? Does the whole factual part of it just not sit right? No, God probably really did reach down and pick up some clay, mold it into a human, breathe into it, then rip out a rib and construct a woman. He personally sewed all her capillaries and wound her small intestines too. The fact that we share at least 95% of our DNA with chimpanzees? Pure coincidence. They probably think the world is only 4000 years old too. The question was originally posed to McCain as a simple yes/no, but then after he answered in the affirmative, the curious moderator threw it out for the rest of the group "Do any of you not believe in evolution?" Sam Brownback, Senator from Kansas, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo all raised their hands. I was flabbergasted. Hopefully they won't be in the picture after the convention.
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Pardon my stupidity, but does this mean that McCain's answer was that he does not believe in evolution?
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McCain is a rational human being...he realizes that evolution is super science fact.
Saw this comment on the Washington Post's "The Fix:"
A professor of mine in undergrad put it well. He had one Ph.D. in theology and another in physics. He said that science gives the how. Religion gives the why. There's only conflict why religion tries to say how things happen and science tries to say why.
Michael - great quote! That's one of the most profound statements I've ever heard on this topic.
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