Republican presidential candidate Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) greets diners during a campaign stop at ''Popovers on the Square'' in Portsmouth, New Hampshire August 18, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder
Posted on 08/18/2011 8:33:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Among the protestors at this morning's meet and greet in Portsmouth, N.H., a mother used her child as a prop to confront Rick Perry about his beliefs on evolution and science.
The mother pushed her son towards Perry and insisted he ask the governor about the age of the earth.
"How old do I think the earth is? You know what, I don't have any idea," Perry said. "I know it's pretty old so it goes back a long long way. I'm not sure anybody actually knows completely and absolutely how long, how old the earth is."
While Perry was answering the child's question, the mother continued to loudly whisper in the child's ear to ask him about evolution and why he doesn't believe in science.
"Here your mom was asking about evolution, and you know it's a theory that's out there, and it's got some gas in it. In Texas we teach both creationsim and evolution in our public schools," Perry said. "Because I figure you're smart enough to figure out which one is right."
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I am not agreeing with this woman, but my religion determines, for me, what is right and wrong. I would think that would be a relevant campaign concern.
No, actually the Bible says what the Bible says and not what you want it to say.
For example,
Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Excellent answer. The man can definitely think on his feet!
“Why exactly do liberals think a candidate’s religion is a relevant campaign issue?”
I love it. No, really, I hate it.
Every time there is an open republican primary we are treated to the MSM (who are most likely just a bunch of atheists) inquiring into the finest points of theology as espoused by various Christian sects down through the ages.
Do you believe in evolution?
Is the pope the anti-Christ?
Do you support Israel just because you long for the “end times”?
Yet when Barack Obama was revealed to have been not only a member of an anti-white, anti-American church, but had the pastor of that church as his spiritual advisor and mentor, it was shrugged off. And a wee bit later, said mentor was under the bus, since he’d had the nerve to tell the Washington Press corps exactly what he’d been telling his congregation for many years.
Maybe next time we need to get a Jewish person to run.
Just to watch their tiny little pinheads explode.
Maybe you think that because you've only heard idiots reply to such questions? I even leave Biology Professors speechless. (One asked if I'd be interested in writing a paper about what we talked about.) I'm not the sort to go ranting that everything in Genesis is the literal truth, but isn't that what the Darwinists want little children to believe about The Origin of Species?
ML/NJ
I’m following what the scriptures actually teach...not what the incorrect translators teach. On top of that..with the proper translation on age vs day then you find a witness...you have the bible and then you have a witness in archaeology. HE put it out there to find...we’ve found it...yet, man’s doctrines, traditions, commandments of men and of course fables has corrupted the truth.
Maybe, But I'm sure she sleeps with her teachers union card.
Is this another ‘FReepers-hate-science-because-we’re-stupid’ post?
The comments at your link are disgusting, and one includes this loathsome link;
http://www.opednews.com/thoreau022704_texas_governor.htm
Because they're too stupid to learn spelling.
NO...the scripture says: Gen 1:31 God gazed upon all that He had made and it was very beautiful. Thus the close came, and the dawn came of the sixth age.
And I am guessing there is no father around. Typical obnoxious progressive — using her child instead of asking the question herself.
I guess the silly progressive didn't have the guts to ask the stupid questions herself?
the same people, who criticise Romney for flip-flops,
give Perry a pass, for praising Islam, and refusing to show the same courage as Bachmann and Palin do, about his faith?
Perry praised the religion that our troops are killed in the name of.
that may be your kind of evangelical,
but i’ll take Bachmann OR Palin, ANY day.
Perry endorses Guliani and Gore, is pro Amnesty for illegal immigrants, makes government bigger and spends more, forces girls to get vaccinated for an STD that the NT Times and the United Nations backs, etc.
Mark Levin and Michelle Bachmann have problems with him.
...if ANY other candidate, had so much in common with the NY Times, etc., he’d be called a moderate like Romney.
...but all this is ignored, because... “Perry is Awesome”.
Hmmm...now...what do NH and TX have in common? I just can't put my finger on why rich marxists would live there...?
And God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good And the evening and the morning were the sixth day
And God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good And the evening and the morning were the sixth day
Boy, I thought YEC was sort of finally in decline, based on less posts about it. Disappointing it isn’t.
Drawing a parallel between global warming and age of the earth is beyond silly. All the actual Young Earth scientists(whose degrees are in fields actually RELATED to the age of the earth, like geology) are indeed ACTUALLY a microscopic group of ignored crackpots.
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