If some smart ass tries to corner you with a question like “what is the age of the earth” just say “I don’t know. I wasn’t there. Maybe you should ask my opponent”.
In the 2012 election cycle, Republicans were asked (at Democrat moderated debates) various questions about their Christian faith, evolution, etc.
Obama was not pressed to declare his own lack of belief in Jesus as the only way to Salvation. Yet the church going (and preaching) voters saw him as a Christian (because his campaign staff said he was). His site even claimed in the fight the smears section that he was a LIFE LONG Christian. Elsewhere he held himself at a higher moral position because he “came to Christ” on his own (without his parents’ influence) later in life as an adult (it was the former muslim Jeremiah Wright who “brought him there”).
Either religious questions are fair game for all candidates of they aren’t. Letting Democrats moderate GOP primaries is stupid.
Or they can say, “When my democrat opponent says when they believe that human life begins in the womb, I will say when I think human life began on Earth.”
Doesn’t seem to matter whether you take that approach or not, because the left will just make up an answer to make you look silly, as they did here.
[ If some smart ass tries to corner you with a question like “what is the age of the earth” just say “I don’t know. I wasn’t there. Maybe you should ask my opponent”. ]
Maybe the best way to answer that is that the scientific age of the earth has varied over the last several hundred years with the people thinking it was hundreds of thousands of years old to millions to billions. Then say “If I give you an answer of 4.3 billion years and next year the next hot theory says the earth is 4.5 billion years old can I get a promise from you and your network that you won’t endlessly use that clip to bash me on your network for thinking the earth is 200 million years younger than what will then be a claim by the establishment to be scientifically accurate?”
The thing is you don’t answer the question with a number, let the questioner KNOW that you will not fall for their feeble Saul Alinsky attempt to divide your current base on an issue that at the end of the days nothing to do whatsoever to how you will govern.
Or you could use humor to answer it and use a pop culture reference like: “Well my TARDIS is in the shop right now so I can’t get you an exact figure on the age of the earth right now, and it is expected to take20 years to get it fixed, ask me then.”
Hmm, if only God, who was there, would have written a book so we could know for sure.