How can anyone that believes that the earth was created 6,000 years ago be qualified to be President?

Question

It demonstrates to me the utter lack of conviction and belief in the complexities of the world as we understand it today, and, implies a passion for the ignorant and steadfast accpetance of that which, is, well, false. This makes a lousy President, because, they are too simplistic intellectually.

Answer 1

No. Your arguments are solid and can't be denied on the basis of facts and reason. That will however not stop the cultist American right from sticking to their position. My belief is some really believe that anti intellectualism for themselves and others only tell and support those lies because they think their base wants them too. I agree you don't want crazies in the white house or liars who choose appeasing the crazies over their own judgment and all rationality

Answer 2

They aren’t. Just look at the mess their chosen Grand Poobah, Bubba Dubya, has created.

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Bearkat –

Evolution is both a fact and a scientific theory. Creationism is make-believe; and is a “theory” only when that word is used to mean any goofy idea invented by the human imagination (Sort of like: “George Bush is Bigfoot’s love slave” can be called a theory—although that idea is not as flakey as creationism.)

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Bearkat –

There are no problems or issues with the fundamental theory. Evolution is the basis of all biological science and, in fact, every life science; without which they all collapse into meaningless nonsense. This includes medical science. Without its evolutionary foundation, modern medical doctors are no different than those who practice witchcraft and voodoo. As it is, they are properly viewed as practitioners of evolutionary theory.

The scientific theory of evolution is the most powerful general explanatory model in all of science. Even physics has nothing that can match it. It represents the biological equivalent of the “unifying theory” they strive to attain. If evolution is wrong, then everything we think we know about the universe is also wrong because it would imply failure of the scientific method itself.

The course of human evolution (and every particular science) is a separate matter. Science is self-correcting—that is its greatest strength—the method, itself, is immune from human bias and preconceptions.

I love the early history of Neanderthal research. The first discovery you mention sparked a great debate between German and French scientists in the professional literature of their day. The Germans argued that it was a French soldier in Napoleon’s army; while the French argued that it was too “ugly” to be French and, therefore, almost certainly was German.

Incorrect interpretations of a Neanderthal burial from La Chappelle-aux-Saints, in France, have made their way into modern culture in the form of the stooped-over brutish caveman cartoon figure we all have seen thousands of times. Subsequent analysis revealed that the individual had suffered from chronic and severe arthritis—which produced the skeletal deformity and related “bent-over” physical appearance.

Answer 3

The Founding Fathers believed in the creation and the Creator.
The Declaration Of Independence is complex and had forward thinking minds compose it.
I do not see how ones spiritual beliefs need to enter into being president and following our constitution.
The creation can be argued both ways but can not be proved or disproved.
Therefore I think we as a nation need to consider much more serious issues at hand when looking for a new President to lead us forward.

Answer 4

Evolution is a theory, just like creation, and it has developed problems that few people want to acknowledge.

http://www.godandscience.org/evolution/evol1996.html

I would argue that those that blindly accept evolution without discussion are simplistic intellectually.

That said, the Right Wing claims that being a Christian is a pre-requisite to being President, which is not true. We're electing a president, a secular leader, not a spiritual king.

Gary, evolution is a theory with a number of serious problems that are simply glossed over by "experts."

One of the backbone concepts behind evolution was the discovery of "Lucy," a skeleton judged to be 3 point 2 million years old. A newer skeleton was discovered that was almost as complete as Lucy as was judged to be 2 point 6 million years old, but that skeleton has been judged to be more ape-like, fit for climbing trees than Lucy was. Was it backwards evolution?

Science has gone back and corrected itself many times in evolution, claiming one tooth was evidence of the famed "Nebraska man," when in reality that model was built up from the tooth of an extinct pig.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v13/i2/pig.asp

"Neanderthal Man" was another backbone of the evolutionary theory.

http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/491

"After discovering the first Neanderthal skullcap in 1856 in the Neander Valley near Dusseldorf, Germany, German anatomist Ruldolph Virchow said in essence that the fossil was the remains of a modern man afflicted with rickets and osteoporosis. In 1958, at the International Congress of Zoology, A.J.E. Cave stated that his examination of the famous Neanderthal skeleton established that it was simply an old man who had suffered from arthritis."

Science is often wrong, and I can imagine there were problems in some scientists' efforts to prove the Bible right as well. Again, that just shows that some are willing to embrace bad science.

It takes just as much faith to believe in evolution as creation.

Answer 5

I think a Baptist Minister is exactly what we need. That is, someone of very low faith. Your "4.5 billion year" old religion, that states we evolved from "soup" requires MUCH MORE faith to believe than what that Baptist minister preaches. Evolution requires massive amounts of time to believe the impossible. For example, if I told a judge that a new Cadillac "formed" in my driveway because of prevailing winds from a nearby auto.
plant "condensing" into a new car, I would be led away in a straight jacket even if it took billions of years. Neither chance, adaptation, nor natural selection formed that car in my driveway, it was driven there by a being with some fairly sophisticated intellect, not a dog, ameoba, or a monkey. Since we can build a Cadillac but not a man, the builder had to have superior intelligence over us. Wise men still seek him, but fools are right in their own eyes.

Answer 6

Same way someone believing that global warming is all because of humans.

Who are you to judge who has a lack of conviction and beliefs,and who is to simplistic intellectually?

I can deal with someone like that than one who is a Narcissistic individual. Who continually makes bad personal decisions,then tries to lie his way out of it. That person is a bigger threat than someone who believes in when the world began if
that is his religion. At least HE BELIEVES IN SOMETHING!!

Answer 7

Being President is very simple.

You are presented with decisions, you look at the Constitution, and if your problem is not addressed in it, it goes back to the person or group with the problem.

Ron Paul is the only one that does this.

But if someone believed in elves, and followed the Constitution like above, I would vote for them.

How could they be worse than a Demo-rat or a Neo-convict?

Answer 8

What is 6,000 years in God's opinion, it could be 200 billion years.

God works in mysterious way sometimes, he puts things out so that people will think along the lines of some of the answers you have gotten.

Answer 9

It takes a lot more conviction to be a Christian than it does to be an atheist. Believing in nothing but what you were shown in a textbook hardly makes one a complex thinker. On the contrary, your refusal to even open your mind to an alternate explanation, illuminates the simplicity of your own intellect.

Answer 10

Look on the bright side, at least it isn't 2000 years.

Add about ... six more zeros to the end and then multiply by 2.5 . That should do the trick.