US 'doomed' if creationist president elected: scientists

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[jd792]

you have to dumb down the students to keep lazy teachers

[Berlin_Freeper]

A scientist that claims “evolution is a fact” probably also believes in the Tooth Fairy.

[PresidentFelon]

Here are my comments I posted under this article on the AFP website:

Wow. I bet George Washington and the first forty-five or so Presidents of this country might strongly disagree with the views of this “scientist”. The United States has become the most powerful and rich nation this planet has ever known with exactly the kind of men in charge that this bigot decries.

Mr. Omenn’s comments are typical of the American left and illustrative of their fascist nature. If you don’t subscribe to their dogma you are to be shunned and ridiculed. They demand tolerance of everyone else why exhibiting the most intolerance among us. It is indeed interesting that this “scientist” used Global Warming as an example of a theory in which everyone who is “logical” must agree. He can’t prove it’s happening, but we absolutely must agree with him.

Any person with a truly open mind can see there are real problems with the Chicken Little crowd and their proclamations of the impending climate apocalypse. Any honest scientist cannot look at all the contradictions in the science, understand the primitive nature of the computer models we are using, acknowledge the fallibility of the old temperature data we are using, admit there is so much we don’t know, and then tell us he knows what’s going to happen to our climate for the next 100 years. Given the lack of our knowledge about so many of the natural forces that shape our climate, it is simply impossible. But that does not stop people like Gilbert Omenn. He doesn’t care what anybody else thinks or science proves.

Interestingly, I agree that species evolve. I just can’t prove humans were the product of primordial slime. And despite what Mr Omenn tells you, neither can he.

The left have become the Borg, resistance s futile, you will be assimilated. If not, you will be silenced.

Charles McFarling
Indianapolis, IN

[shekkian]

Huckabee's a Creationist?

AAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!! Run for the hills!!!!

[gondramB]

>>A scientist that claims “evolution is a fact” probably also believes in the Tooth Fairy.<<

A scientist who says “evolution is a fact” is either simplifying or mis-speaking. It could go either way.

[Socratic]

Is that the same logic which tells us that different species don’t breed, but that all species derive from a common ancestor?

[jwalsh07]

The logic that convinces us that evolution is a fact is the same logic we use to say smoking is hazardous to your health or we have serious energy policy issues because of global warming," University of Michigan professor Gilbert Omenn told reporters at the launch of a book on evolution by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

:-] You can't make this stuff up.

[aruanan]

"I would worry that a president who didn't believe in the evolution arguments wouldn't believe in those other arguments either. This is a way of leading our country to ruin," added Omenn, who was part of a panel of experts at the launch of "Science, Evolution and Creationism."

Omenn is a partisan for naturalism, pure and simple. But saying that U.S. would be led to ruin is simply stupid. As a Ph.D. in the biological sciences from one of the top universities in the world, I can say that there are a lot of scientists who are really smart in one way but who are really stupid in others. Some of them appear to think that because they are the top in their field it means they're just as likely to be right about anything else they choose to weigh in on.

[aruanan]

A poll conducted last year showed that two-thirds of Americans believe in creationism, or the theory that God created humans at a single point in time, while 53 percent believe that humans developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life -- the theory of evolution.

Where's the editor? 66% believe A. 53% believe not-A.

[JSDude1]

More denying the truth (and bashing God’s people: ALERT)!

[Dumb_Ox]

" two-thirds of Americans believe in creationism, or the theory that God created humans at a single point in time, while 53 percent believe that humans developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life -- the theory of evolution."

These are mutually exclusive positions. As stated in the article, believing in both is not an option. It's crappy writing. The author probably means that 25% believe in Divinely-guided evolution, but that's not the "both" option.

[Anti-MSM]

I believe in creationism, but I’m still not voting for Huckabee. I’m a born-again Christian and am not planning on voting for him because of his record on taxes and immigration.

[LiteKeeper]

Where is the BARF ALERT?

[Michael81Dus]

Did he really say that? LOL!

[editor-surveyor]

This is giving me a really good laugh. They are correct; evolution is just as ignorant as global warming, and fear of second hand smoke. We could also add in Cholestral and a few other things while we are at it.

A creationist president is likely our nation's only hope for survival, and for freedom.

[xzins]

Dumb.

GWBush is either ID or Creationist.

[Leonard210]

I love it! And that’s the short list! :-D

[editor-surveyor]

"Please tell me how replacing science with superstition is going to make our schools better."

What they've done is replace science, and facts, with evolution, which is worse than superstition; its mendacious and racist.

[Mamzelle]

It is so nutty for a scientist to be insisting on a “belief” system. What next, the Nicene Creed of Evolution?

[Raycpa]

US 'doomed' if creationist president elected

The above is the most unscientific statement that anyone can possible make. It makes me wonder whether these folks are scientists at all.