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Rand Paul Won’t Say How Old the Earth Is. (Whiny liberal hates Creationists)
True/Slant ^ | 6-28-2010 | Charles Johnson

Posted on 06/29/2010 4:21:08 AM PDT by Christian_Capitalist

Rand Paul Won’t Say How Old the Earth Is
Charles Johnson
The Lizard Annex 6-28-2010

From PageOneKentucky.com, here’s a video of GOP candidate Rand Paul addressing a convention of Christian homeschoolers, and dodging a question about the age of the Earth.

The questions asked by the homeschoolers in the video: 1) are you a Christian, 2) how old is the Earth, and 3) will you let the UN take our children. Yep, really. And these are the teachers asking these questions. They’re raising a generation of kids who are ignorant anti-science fanatics, afraid that the United Nations is going to come and kidnap them. Good grief.

Did he dodge the question because he’s a creationist and he knows that he shouldn’t reveal it for political reasons, or because he’s not a creationist and he knows he shouldn’t reveal it for political reasons? Either way, this is very sleazy behavior.

My opinion: I think he probably is a creationist, just like his father Ron Paul, because his world view matches the creationist world view in every respect.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: creation; creationism; homeschooling; paulestinians; paulistinians; pitchforkpat; randpaul
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To: MrB

(I was kidding about hating your posts, of course. I’m much obliged for your contributions to the thread. My wife and I hope to Christian-School our children, but we’re willing to consider home-schooling also. We’re both of the opinion that sending a child to an Evolutionist Government School is a form of Child Abuse).


101 posted on 06/29/2010 9:18:13 AM PDT by Christian_Capitalist (Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
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To: FrankR

The Bible reveal that earth is not our home.


102 posted on 06/29/2010 9:18:52 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Christian_Capitalist

I can see that the writer is completely unbiased in his evaluation of Rand Paul’s position.

Yeah,

right...


103 posted on 06/29/2010 9:19:14 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Yeah, objective journalism at its finest.


104 posted on 06/29/2010 9:20:07 AM PDT by Christian_Capitalist (Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
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To: Christian_Capitalist

The writer ASSumes a lot......


105 posted on 06/29/2010 9:20:07 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
Well, he probably is right about Rand Paul being raised as a Creationist by his Creationist dad.

But that's all to the good, I say. Christian home-schoolers and other Creationists wouldn't mind having another Ally in the Senate.

106 posted on 06/29/2010 9:21:50 AM PDT by Christian_Capitalist (Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Thanks!


107 posted on 06/29/2010 9:22:33 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: ASA Vet
Maybe Dr. Paul recognized the “are you still beating your wife?” question for what it was.

EXACTLY!!!!!

108 posted on 06/29/2010 9:22:44 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: aruanan

Best post I’ve seen on the age of the earth debate.

That’s a keeper.

Thank you.


109 posted on 06/29/2010 9:25:06 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: raybbr

Good thing that evos don’t have such restrictions on their behavior.....


110 posted on 06/29/2010 9:27:45 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: TXnMA
"Man is not the measure of God".

Indeed. Thank you so much for the ping, dear brother in Christ!

111 posted on 06/29/2010 9:31:49 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Christian_Capitalist
It will not eliminate evolution and biology from schools who wish to meet the ACTUAL demand of the Free Market.

The Free Market demands trained biologists who know the theory of evolution.

The Free Market has no use for highly trained creationists.

How many jobs do you see in the Sunday Paper for creationists?

There are lots of jobs out there for biologists.

The Free Market at work.

112 posted on 06/29/2010 9:33:36 AM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: Christian_Capitalist
My opinion: I think he probably is a creationist...

So are you saying he's too ashamed to admit it?

113 posted on 06/29/2010 9:35:48 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Eagle Eye

Every kind was represented on the ark. From these, all the “species” could have self-selected for the area and environment they eventually migrated to,

but the pair that was on the ark had all the genetic information necessary to “naturally select” into the “species” we see today.


114 posted on 06/29/2010 9:35:56 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: raybbr; MrB

Likewise evolutionists will never attract anyone to science by calling them *creatards* and *IDiots*, flat earthers, and a whole plethora of other derogatory terms, and insulting them as some evos ahve already tried on this thread.

See? It works both ways.


115 posted on 06/29/2010 9:37:59 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: MrB
So in other words, evolution doesn't happen, unless the species just survived a global flood, in which case evolution happens at a rate thousands of times faster than any evolutionary biologist ever proposed, but also somehow only within undefined limits.

Gotcha!

So evolution is thousands of times more powerful/faster of a mechanism than science proposes; but we still shouldn't teach it in school?

116 posted on 06/29/2010 9:39:46 AM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: allmendream

Natural selection happens,
but natural selection is not evolution.

The main difference is that genetic information isn’t added in the process.


117 posted on 06/29/2010 9:41:46 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Christian_Capitalist
You still have not provided a source for the statistics you claim.

School boards, even in conservative strongholds, that introduce creationist lesson plans, get thrown out by voters.

How do you explain this?

118 posted on 06/29/2010 9:42:00 AM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: allmendream
It will not eliminate evolution and biology from schools who wish to meet the ACTUAL demand of the Free Market.

Sure it will.

The national average in Education Spending, per child, is around $10,000 per year.

Now, suppose that instead of Stealing that money from Creationist parents, and using it to fund Evolutionist schools -- we just hand every Parent their $10,000 per-child, and say, "Choose the school you want!"

Creationist Parents will send their children to Creationist Schools. Since those who support the teaching of Creationism as the sole or alternate explanation of life on Earth (80% of all Americans) vastly outnumber those who favor the teaching of Evolution-Only (20% of all Americans), the Free Market will respond by providing far more Creationist schools than Evolutionist schools. These numbers will progressively tilt even more in favor of Creationists over time, because we breed a lot more kids.

He who pays the piper, calls the tune. None of your arguments really matter, if Creationist Parents get to choose with their pocketbooks, as to what kind of schools we wish to send our kids.

We'll out-spend and out-breed you and your kind. Simple as that.

119 posted on 06/29/2010 9:42:07 AM PDT by Christian_Capitalist (Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
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To: Christian_Capitalist

How old is the earth? I can’t anwser that. I know it’s older than I am because it was here when I arrived.

Perhaps we can saw it in half and count the rings!


120 posted on 06/29/2010 9:42:50 AM PDT by meyer (Big government is the enemy of freedom.)
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