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Rubio: “There is no scientific debate on the age of the earth”
Salon.com ^
| 12/5/2012
| Jillian Rayfield
Posted on 12/06/2012 9:47:52 AM PST by ksen
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This won't make the base happy
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posted on
12/06/2012 9:47:57 AM PST
by
ksen
To: ksen
Ok great thanks Marco. Now can we get back to Benghazi?
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posted on
12/06/2012 9:50:57 AM PST
by
albie
To: ksen
Let the Leftwing Media hit job on Rubio begin. He's a charismatic Latino Republican. That is a threat to the Left and their lock on minority voters. So the media asks him questions like this and harps on them to make him look like some nut
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posted on
12/06/2012 9:51:30 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: ksen
Actually, the title is pretty accurate.
There’s no way to use the scientific method to ascertain the age of the earth.
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posted on
12/06/2012 9:52:53 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: ksen
Not a big deal but could be handled a bit better.
In 04 Duncan Hunter gave a great answer to the question. He said it wasn’t important to him how God did it or how long it took.
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posted on
12/06/2012 9:53:13 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
He ought to educate himself on the evolutionist lie.
To: Opinionated Blowhard
For me his charisma evaporates when he starts shilling for illegal’s amnesty.
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posted on
12/06/2012 9:57:02 AM PST
by
Mi-kha-el
((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
To: ksen
OK, Salon, now start asking the Obamadork about some of his beliefs. I believe there are N quotes out there showing Obamadork contradictions - get to them.
And, by the way, I don’t give a smelly Obama about Rubio’s beliefs on the age of the earth.
I do care about his beliefs on economics, which are a great deal more based in logic than are those of the dork.
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posted on
12/06/2012 9:58:05 AM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: ksen
The GOP candidates and potential candidates should not answer these types of questions. Do what the Democrats do, respond with scripted talking points.
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posted on
12/06/2012 9:58:37 AM PST
by
forgotten man
(forgotten man)
To: ksen
at least 4.5 billion Is that the number of illegals Rubio would like to give amnesty to?
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posted on
12/06/2012 9:58:53 AM PST
by
Yashcheritsiy
(It's time to Repeal and Replace the Republican Party)
To: ksen
There is no scientific debate on the age of the earth. I mean, its established pretty definitively, its at least 4.5 billion years old
BS. There is no such thing as settled science. Period. Radiometric dating techniques have all sorts of issues and assumptions related to them which make the age determination our best guess (if our assumptions happen to be valid, which we have no way of knowing).
To: MrB
Theres no way to use the scientific method to ascertain the age of the earth.
My eyes almost just got stuck pointing back after my brain after I just vigorously rolled them.
To: cripplecreek
And he was out of the running before I had a chance to vote for him. Our primary system is stupid. Little inconsequential states deciding who stays and who goes.
To: ksen
After dabbling in creationism earlier this month... So the MSM hits Rubio with a question out of the blue, and after he answers it he's accused of "dabbling" in the subject?
Is that like saying that Romney "dabbled" with contraception during the primary debate?
-PJ
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posted on
12/06/2012 10:03:38 AM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: microgood
The precise number will oscillate around a bit and is debatable, but it is EXCEEDINGLY unlikely it will ever change to less than 4 billion years, or more than 5 billion years, and you’ll NEVER see it change to 4.5 million years, 450,000 years, or...6,000 years.
To: ksen
“Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, Im not sure well ever be able to answer that. Its one of the great mysteries.”
There’s no mystery, Genesis speaks of the Earth being replenished. Prior, there was the fall of Lucifer and the destruction that followed. If God says it took 7 days to make things right again then so be it. How old the Earth was prior to the destruction only God knows for sure, nevertheless there have been many scientific estimates.
To: Strategerist; microgood
I doubt God consulted a science text when he created.
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posted on
12/06/2012 10:09:02 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: ksen
Rush pointed out that this was a “set-up” question similar to the pernicious birth control question in 2008.
I'd like to see reporters start asking a better “set-up” question for candidates: “Do you oppose the United Nations and it's efforts to establish world government.
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posted on
12/06/2012 10:11:01 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: microgood
“...Radiometric dating techniques have all sorts of issues and assumptions related to them which make the age determination our best guess...”
I agree, Radio Isotopes have been proven to be altered by contamination from heat & water. No accurate readings are possible. Case in point: Mount Saint Helens —
This comes from an established Geologist.
Other posters are right, it is an attempt to mix up conservative base. it'll work.
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posted on
12/06/2012 10:11:40 AM PST
by
kimtom
(USA on the Brink, Now Falling over the edge)
To: MrB
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posted on
12/06/2012 10:13:53 AM PST
by
jagusafr
(the American Trinity (Liberty, In G0D We Trust, E Pluribus Unum))
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