Posted on 02/12/2015 12:29:02 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
That's a great line!
There is a great deal of diversity of thought on the right about Creation and Evolutionary theory.
Frankly I think we should start nailing the left on their lack of diverse thought on just about every subject. I call it ideological stagnation.
“Why Yes, I do believe that evolution is a theory.
Isn’t that why it’s called “The Theory of Evolution?”
next question?
I think democrats evolved from pond scum!
[ There is a great deal of diversity of thought on the right about Creation and Evolutionary theory.
Frankly I think we should start nailing the left on their lack of diverse thought on just about every subject. I call it ideological stagnation. ]
A LOT of Liberal Evolutionists are resisant to theories that even tear apart their “onto the savanna” theory that they hold so dear. One of them being the so called “aquatic ape theory” of human evolution that Academics have really worked hard to try to destroy because it tears down their existing scientific orthodoxy on the subject.
That's an affront to pond scum.
Lol!
Scott-Walker!
Only Progressives want the Conservatives to Believe in Science, even though they ardently claim on the other hand that science is not a belief system......
The left’s fetish for Darwinian evolution seems to me to be cover for the radically anti-empirical approach to public policy the left exhibits: loudly call your opponents “anti-science” when your own program would be gutted by applying the scientific method to questions actually at issue in political debate.
In point of fact, a great many policy positions the left takes run contrary to what a real believer in Darwinian evolution would believe: They would have us believe that human populations which subsisted in radically different environments for tens of thousands of years will exhibit no measurable differences in anything other than skin, hair and eye color, and thus any disparities in career choices or social outcomes must be the result of invidious discrimination. Likewise, they have no regard for the Darwinian basis of the institution of marriage: that human young are optimally reared by those most genetically similar to them (a consequence of the most radically materialistic explication of Darwinism, the “selfish-gene theory”) with their absurd push for “gay marriage” which misunderstands marriage as nothing more than a “celebration” of at best romantic love at worst lust called “love”.
Darwinism serves the left not as a scientific theory actually informing how they understand the world, but as a shibboleth for anti-Christianity.
Unless, it's climate change - that is their religion.
I think I would have answered it, “I’m not so sure about evolution, but I will fly when I visit Europe so I won’t sail off the edge of the earth on a boat.”
A little ridicule is in order for those types of questions from the Republican candidates.
Good answer ... then add, "what does it have to do with being President?" If the report brings up education, it the perfect opportunity to say that there is nothing in the US constitution that empowers the federal government to be involved in education - it is a state and local manner.
I loved walker’s answer.
Rhett Butler had my attitude about right = ‘Frankly I don’t give a damn’
Should have said:
“I agree with what Darwin wrote at the end of his life, expressing doubts about his entire theory of evolution.”
This gets me through family get-togethers with the evangelicals and the Ph.D's without getting involved in the argument and taking sides. I hope Scott Walker comes up with some neutral answer; since he is such a savvy politician, I'm sure he will.
Nobody ever asks a lefty politician if he believes in some of the metaphysical nonsense many of them believe. I mean, has anyone ever asked Al Gore if he really believes there are such things as Chakras - or does he use it as a line to get laid?
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