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To: SeekAndFind
Not really a good answer at all, but an incoherent, rambling run-on sentence. Consider:

“There are clear indications from our people who have amazing intellectual capability “

Meaning, I suppose, there are claims of clear indications from (those of) our people, i.e. my co-religionists” (Amazing to whom? In comparison to Rick Perry? Then why are they not announcing their candidature?)

“that this didn't happen by accident and a creator put this in place.”

This would seem to be a reference to Scientific Creationism, a bankrupt and incoherent pseudoreligion in which whatever cannot be explained at present is attributed to the intervention of a Creator. This is a matter of faith, and not a conclusion to be drawn from an interpretation of geology or astronomy.

”Now, what was his time frame and how did he create the earth that we know? I'm not going to tell you that I've got the answers to that. I believe that we were created by this all-powerful supreme being”

By which all-powerful supreme being?

“and (concerning the question of) how we got to today versus what we look like thousands of years ago”

It is revealing that he specifies the time frame of thousands of years ago. We certainly looked and talked much the same as we do today thousands of years ago. It is more a question of tracking ancestry over more than a billion years, unless one is a young earth creationist.

”I think there's enough holes in the theory of evolution to, you know, say there are some holes in that theory..”

If only a complete evolutionary record, in which every single ancestor were itemized, in a list extending back to the first common ancestor, were sufficient evidence, then evolutionary theory is indeed irrefutable, and thus outside the realm of science. However that implicit standard cannot be met by any human knowledge. If this criterion were applied generally, it would be very similar to saying that, since the entire sequence of events leading to the collapse of the twin towers is not known in every single detail, then there must be a cover-up, and the official story is a conspiracy.

53 posted on 08/14/2011 6:54:18 AM PDT by Luminography (Paul Cumming)
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To: Luminography

OK, I get your point, you believe that Rick Perry either is a Creationist or an Intelligent design supporter.

Does this disqualify him to be President in your eyes?


54 posted on 08/14/2011 7:59:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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