Posted on 01/04/2008 2:12:20 PM PST by Sub-Driver
US 'doomed' if creationist president elected: scientists Jan 4 05:29 PM US/Eastern A day after ordained Baptist minister Mike Huckabee finished first in the opening round to choose a Republican candidate for the White House, scientists warned Americans against electing a leader who doubts evolution.
"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).
"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."
Former Arkansas governor Huckabee said in a debate in May that he did not believe in evolution.
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.
Around a quarter of Americans said they believe in both.
The evolution versus creationism debate has crept into school classrooms and politics, where it is mainly conservative Republicans who espouse the non-scientific belief.
"If our country starts to behave irrationally whereas all the other countries coming up and chasing us (to take over as the world leaders in science and technology) behaving rationally, we are doomed," Omenn said.
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So... you're trying to make the case for creationism, or what?
Truth by association.
Listening to liberals is hazadous to one's health.
Why did the NEA in NH endorse Chucklebee? Enough said.
I bet that the first 20 presidents of the United States believed that G*D created. It is hard to believe that a real scientist would peddle such a ridiculous message of doom.
A nut job university moonbat.
The main difference between you and Huck is that he's not proposing to throw the world economy into a depression for the sake of his faith.
If this guy is stupid enough to fall for Global Warming then he has no business arguing about logic.
66 percent plus 53 percent = 119%. Journalists are our superiors.
Research scientists, or their spokesmen anyway, make bad political scientists. It's perfectly possible for a young-earth creationist to love big, juicy science budgets.
If Huck will fund human genome research, medical research, and geologic exploration the scientific establishment will do just fine. As a politician, he'll favor what works even if he doesn't understand or accept the present scientific models.
And what’s this “superstition” you are referring to?
“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...”
“I seeeeee, then smoking IS GOOD!”
Homer Simpson
I'm an evolutionist, but who could ever think this guy is more important than the electorate of Iowa or the USA?
Every President since Washington has expressed belief in a higher spiritual power. This Prof. sounds like a real maroon.
Sorry, Charlie, a lot of people don’t have to support your list of theories to be a good president - actually, the more they question those theories, perhaps the better they’d be as president.
And so it begins.......we will now be mired in religious and theology debates.
While our men sit in a sandbox, surrounded by headchoppers with nukes, being completely ignored.
Exactly, exactly, and exactly. I have serious concerns about anyone who runs for office who can’t distinguish between an article of faith and the scientific method, and is therefore unable to distinguish between a belief and a theory. Egads.
What planet did you arrive from?
So please tell me about the damage done by creationists.
The science elites have announced our doom many times now. The emperor is wearing no clothes.
A president who believes God created the world will not harm us one iota.
US doomed if we get into CO2 trading/regulation.
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