This is the cream of the crop of the Republican Party. When asked in a GQ interview how old the earth was this is what he said:
| I'm not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that's a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do with the gross domestic product or economic growth of the United States. I think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow. I'm not a scientist. I don't think I'm qualified to answer a question like that. At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created and I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says. Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries. |
It's one of the great mysteries?????
The greatest mystery is how the Republican Party has any adherents at all.
P.S. Also reminds me of Bill O'Reilly's, brilliant, "How did the moon get there?"
P.S.S. The earth is 4.5 billion years old (give or take a few hundred million). That is a scientifically proven FACT.
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I used to think the same. In fact, I was very surprised to find out not everyone believed this. I thought ' everyone knows..' I mean, how else can you explain dinosaurs? No way man and dinosaurs existed together, right? Oh yes, they did! I found the truth about when Earth was created reading Old Earth, Why Not. It explains the ice age, the Grand Canyon...everything.
Not ignorance. Sheer pandering to the base. I think that Rubio is making a strategic mistake here that will come back to haunt him later. The GOP cannot build a party on a base of nuttiness and also capture the needed moderate votes by running to the center just before elections.
If a person can't be trusted to apply common sense and rudimentary reasoning skills to a mountain of evidence about the age of the Earth whose import is clear to anyone who is not a pin-headed dogmatist, then he can't be trusted to make rational decisions when evaluating economic evidence and national security evidence.
The current president and the next president will be required to make a fair evaluation of climate change evidence whose proper interpretation requires a correct understanding of the age of the Earth. So this matters.
Tom, I meant feigning ignorance.
Although pandering to ignorance could be seen as ignorant itself.
I would say that a lot of politicians feign ignorance of the facts in order to pander to their base to gain advantage.
This is already turning out to be not such a smart move for Rubio, however. He is being mocked all over the media as an example of "stupid" Republican at a time when the party is realizing that it needs to purge itself of the crazy to win national elections.
why do you have to bring up the economy in an "answer" to how old the earth is? what the hell is that? this is how absurd the repugnant party has become.
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