No legitimate evolutionist believes that life on our little blue, green ball is merely an “accident”–as Huckabee ever so eloquently explains it. From Richard Dawkins to Stephen Hawking experts have been gaining more understanding everyday for decades about the source of life as we know it. And many people do make their decisions upon this evidence. One must only look as far as republican strategist Dr. Karl Rove (He claims that he is “not fortunate enough to be a person of faith.”), to see that this issue is about reason, not a seat on a particular side of the aisle.
Though a significant segment of the United States populous are believing Christians, a minority segment of those mentioned believe that the Earth was created in six days, six-thousand years ago as Gov. Huckabee does.
Admittedly, no expert can explain the full evolutionary history of the cosmos nor, the complete origins of upright-walking humans, they are however, closing in on the answers everyday. How can an individual running for the highest position in the modern world not at least admit there is significant, contrary evidence to his position? And worse, no one seemingly cares. Before the obnoxiously credulous and faithful retort—yes I am aware that I cannot disprove the existence of God anymore than they can prove his existence–which unfortunately for the believers, leaves all the work still ahead of them.
If I were to ask any one of the presidential candidates how long it took Poseidon to create the oceans or Zeus the heavens we would three days later be hearing laughter from the podium. I would not have heard such laughter however, one-thousand years ago. In the great empire of Rome, considered by most the originators of the great democratic concept, such discussions were common place. Yet, a candidate can stand-up and announce not only the existence of a God, but claim to know his intentions and then appear shocked when someone inquires as to the logic for this supposition. Sorry Mike, we’re not interested in your divine, clairvoyant abilities—just your presidential ones.
It is becoming vastly apparent that Gov. Huckabee fancies himself the candidate speaking for the small-town, Christian, humble, family man–the type of folk who cannot concern themselves with all that “readin’ and learnin.’” So let’s interject a little big-city thought, reason and logic and assert that we’re content with the separation of church and state that our forefathers so ingeniously inserted in our constitution. These re-constructionist raconteurs can keep complaining about waving their racist flags and pseudoscience [read: non-science] but when it comes to presidential decisions they should be thinking, not praying about issues.
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