Posted on 10/28/2015 2:09:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
Yeah he would, but Surgeon General is a military title and since Dr Carson did not serve in the military I am not sure if he is qualified or not. Besides as Secretary of Health and Human Service he would be over the Surgeon General whoever that is.
Is your name Gator113? My reply in post#25 was to him not you.
I’m not responding to your post.
I’m responding to te Private Mail you sent me.
As I said - If you want to insult either me or my FRiends, do it right here, not under cover.
Haz we got us a behind-the-bath-house- badass up in here?
Oh no, I’ll make my time and consider meself properly chastised and all.
Nothing serious.
Just bad form.
It doesn’t bother me.
Me, well I’m going to take off every Zig.
What would worry me about having a literal creationist in office is that the President submits the budget to Congress--and if the President decides that scientific research based on evolutionary principles should not be funded, he can do a large amount of damage that would take decades to undo. Any significant life science research becomes impossible when it isn't based on biological theory.
Another danger is that the President has a lot of influence on culture. If he is pushing the message that people should forego science education because there is no scientific evidence that supports a literalist interpretation of Genesis, people will take that message to heart and make choices accordingly. And if anyone does not think the President has an effect on culture, they have only to look around at the current cultural insanity of legalized "gay marriage", promotion of homosexuality, and obsession with "transgender." This insanity comes from the top.
I can see how a surgeon might be able to get through med school and learn the technical skills without fully understanding evolutionary theory and all of its implications. But putting such a person in charge of deciding which science gets funded is, IMO, highly risky. I, for one, rather enjoy the medical advances made possible by life science research.
Isn’t Obama claiming to be a Creationist these days?
He cited the Pope saying that the Earth is a gift from God and that we are to protect it.
Of course, LIFE itself is a gift from God and Barack Obama stands in violent opposition to young life.
Bernie acknowledges that he’s not one to give much credence to God. He’s Jewish by heredity, not belief. He won’t say openly that he doesn’t believe, but Obama himself is still pretending he believes in God (but not Heaven, not an afterlife, not Jesus Christ as his personal Savior, not sin or Hell)...
It has been more years than I care to remember since I was in a biology lab, but I don’t recall any need for evolution to enter into research re medical advances.
You’ll pardon me if I lack the faith necessary to believe that the immeasurable complexity of life on this planet could arise through random mutations, regardless of what “science” asserts.
I once read that as one climbs the ranks of serious astrophysicists and cosmologists, one finds fewer and fewer rank atheists and more mystics. You're right -- they are truly in awe of what they have seen and discovered.
He means a guy like Obama.
Liberal got stabbed to death with a magic knife but was so intent on babbling out his 'Rat talking point of the week and elaborately-structured argumentum ad hominem, that he didn't feel himself bleeding to death.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Engaging his friend in political discussion just so he could "moustrap" him.
Considering what people who have had the first clue, have done about the economy, and that many others who did as well, have used their knowledge to loot it instead, don't you think we might be better off with an honest amateur?
I have zero faith that this man could run a country.
Fair enough. But remember that many, many people thought the same of Harry Truman, Dick Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Teddy Roosevelt, whom the Karl Rove of his day, "Dollar Mark" Hanna, called "that damn cowboy" when he heard McKinley had died and Roosevelt would be taking the oath of office.
Now Teddy's on Rushmore, and who even remembers "Dollar Mark"?
And if that isn't enough, Abraham Lincoln was a railroad lawyer who never passed law school and carried not one electoral vote from south of the Ohio River. (Okay, that was partly his fault, but still.)
And he's up there on Rushmore, too.
I am not that religious but people who have deeply held beliefs in Creationism don’t bother me at all. I say these beliefs are mistaken and wrong but I don’t look upon them as irrational. I see such people as looking for God’s natural order of the universe which is a lot more thatn I can say about the godless.
Above all, the very religious and Creationism believers are completely “normal”, calm and rational when it comes to other parts of their life. Things in life such as working a hi-tech job, raising their children, being kind and considerate neighbors.
The arrogant mistake of godless atheistic liberals is to think that a believer in “irrational” Creationism is irrational and stupid in the rest of his life. Its funny to see the scientific atheist skeptic types get supremely pissed off at Creationism believers. They take it personally. I have seen this and this is what is really irrational.
Actually... It is widespread capitulation to Darwinian dogma - a term carefully chosen - that has paved the way for all of the things conservatives claim to abhor: abortion, homosexuality, borrowing without intent to repay. Existence-as-an-accident begets nihilism, where the only reality is whatever one creates. Hence there can be, in purely naturalistic existence, no basis for ultimate right and wrong. Thus I give you America, 2015.
Magic underpants?
I would think that starts with M and ends with t with five letters in between. Nothing to do with Seventh Day.
More like the 2012 loser's religion!
If Mr. Carson is a creationist, it means that he’s not a
brilliant, intellectual, really-really smart, cosmically brilliant, Progressive genius.
See? Ya know?
/s/
IMHO
The correct answer is that we don’t know.
The only answer an honest person can give to the question of creation...
“There are two kinds of people in this world. There are creationists. And there are those who ignore creation.”
There are creationists and then there are lying, murdering, Communist swine who have murdered with impunity, tortured untold numbers of humans in re-education camps and actively sought out Christians for elimination because they did not accept the Communist line.
IMHO
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