{"id":4711,"date":"2010-09-15T23:30:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2010-09-15T23:31:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T23:31:05","slug":"demints-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/demints-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMint’s Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"One reason that Delaware’s best-known GOP candidate will have such a mountain to climb in the general election is the emergence of fresh embarrassments like these comments (via<\/a> New York<\/em> magazine today) from a 1996 debate on whether creationism should be taught alongside evolution:<\/p>\n

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL, Concerned Women for America: Well, as the senator from Tennessee mentioned, evolution is a theory and it’s exactly that. There is not enough evidence, consistent evidence to make it as fact, and I say that because for theory to become a fact, it needs to consistently have the same results after it goes through a series of tests. The tests that they put \u2014 that they use to support evolution do not have consistent results. Now too many people are blindly accepting evolution as fact. But when you get down to the hard evidence, it’s merely a theory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, but…Oh, never mind. Well, how about creationism, then?<\/p>\n

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL: Well, creationism, in essence, is believing that the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okey dokey. <\/p>\n

You can bet your bottom taxpayer dollar that O’Donnell’s Democratic opponent will do everything that he can to keep voters focussed on the Republican candidate’s more exotic, uh, issues. After all, it sure beats talking about government bloat, rising taxation, a faltering recovery and all the rest of those topics that the Democrats would much rather avoid.<\/p>\n

And we can also be sure that O’Donnell’s triumph has made it easier to portray Republicans elsehere in a similar light. <\/p>\n

As I said, DeMint’s choice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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