Posted on 12/04/2007 9:00:48 PM PST by Kurt Evans
TOM FAHEY: Governor Huckabee, at a previous debate, you and two of your colleagues indicated that you do not believe in evolution. You’re an ordained minister. What do you believe? Is it the story of creation as it is reported in the Bible or described in the Bible?
GOVERNOR HUCKABEE: It’s interesting that that question would even be asked of somebody running for president. I’m not planning on writing the curriculum for an eighth-grade science book. I’m asking for the opportunity to be president of the United States.
But you’ve raised the question, so let me answer it. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth.” To me it’s pretty simple, a person either believes that God created this process or believes that it was an accident and that it just happened all on its own.
And the basic question was an unfair question because it simply asks us in a simplistic manner whether or not we believed — in my view — whether there’s a God or not. Well let me be very clear: I believe there is a God. I believe there is a God who was active in the creation process. Now, how did he do it, and when did he do it, and how long did he take? I don’t honestly know, and I don’t think knowing that would make me a better or a worse president.
But I’ll tell you what I can tell the country. If they want a president who doesn’t believe in God, there’s probably plenty of choices. But if I’m selected as president of this country, they’ll have one who believes in those words that God did create. And as the words of Martin Luther, “Here I stand. I can do no other.” And I will not take that back.
WOLF BLITZER: Governor, but — but — (applause) — I think the specific question — the specific question is do you believe literally it was done in six days and it occurred 6,000 years ago?
GOVERNOR HUCKABEE: No, I didn't answer that, Wolf. I said I don’t know. My point is, I don’t know; I wasn’t there. (Laughter.) But I believe whether God did it in six days or whether he did it in six days that represented periods of time, he did it, and that’s what’s important.
But, you know, if anybody wants to believe that they are the descendants of a primate, they are certainly welcome to do it. I don’t know how far they will march that back. But I believe that all of us in this room are the unique creations of a God who knows us and loves us and who created us for his own purpose.
>>Congressman Hunter on evolution:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934888/posts
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1874862/posts
Honest science defends Hunter and Huckabee:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934898/posts<<
I didn’t realize Hunter has said that too... that is really unfortunate - I like him a lot. But I can’t support somebody for a policy position with a YEC view. I had hoped he could at least be secretary of defense....
I think Huck knows the focus of this repeated line of questioning is being used to build a foundation upon which to paint him as a religios kook down the road. “We don’t need another theocracy, blah, blah blah.”
“I’m sure if God did all that, He could quite easily have created an evolutionary process that led to the human race as well.”
True. But the process couldn’t have included death, which is inconsistent with God’s nature and came into the world only as a consequence of human rebellion.
“The evidence is that billions of years passed here on earth.”
If you’re interested in getting another perspective, I’d recommend the following books:
http://www.amazon.com/Young-Earth-History-Present-Future/dp/0890514984
http://www.amazon.com/Thousands-not-Billions-Donald-Deyoung/dp/0890514410
This line of questioning will increase Huckabee’s support.
Oh yea, God is pro open borders.
“I didn’t realize Hunter has said that too... that is really unfortunate - I like him a lot. But I can’t support somebody for a policy position with a YEC view.”
I didn’t mean to suggest that either Governor Huckabee or Congressman Hunter shared my “young earth” creationist view. Governor Huckabee apparently doesn’t think the age of the earth is especially important, and I don’t know whether Congressman Hunter does either.
Uh-oh, I bet the GOP establishment is gonna have a word with him on that one!
Does he have a Health Nut section on his website?
a faction on FR
Consdiering it is the triple D combo and 1 or 2 others posting all the Huck stuff, I think we know were the faction is.
Then there is this:
Thompson 71.3% 432
Romney 10.7% 65
Giuliani 8.4% 51
Huckabee 8.1% 49
McCain 1.5% 9
So you are a larger faction than McCains...
Thank you for the clarification.
When I was on the prolife platform and somebody asked "... but when does human life begin?" I'd answer:
"There's a great deal of honest controversy about that. Some would say that it was with the emergence of anthropoid apes perhaps one million, seven-hundred-thousand years ago; others hold that Neanderthals were not our direct ancestors, but rather that they split off from the human tree more than 300,000 years ago.
"However there is no controversy ovr the fact that human life is transmitted to a new generation every time a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum."
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