I would be intrigued to pick on his intriguing arguments and views about this in detail sometime, but for now, this is senseless nitpicking and highly irrelevant. Most of the Republican GOP candidates, esp. Huckabee don’t believe in evolution too. So you are voting for a Democrat socialist?

What is important to me is that although Ron Paul doesn’t believe in evolution, he DOESN’T FORCE anyone to take this belief or even promote it.

It’s a huge contrast to how neocons FORCE their beliefs on the American people, get american soldiers killed in senseless wars, bleed the economy dry, and FORCE their will and kill millions of innocent civilians halfway around the world.

So what is more important to you?

Michael Scheuer , who also strongly disagrees with Dr. Paul on some issues, says it best:

“..a person need not agree with Dr. Paul on each and every issue, but only on the most important issue: America’s future economic viability and its sovereign independence as a nation. .”

So, just to be clear, everyone here so far is advocating that he lie, obfuscate, or deny his beliefs?

No, just switch to the PC party line. PC uber alles.

Or else — it’s one of a number of Jim Crow-style litmus tests (a rigged game) by the Left.

It cut off part of that post.

To answer your question directly. The earth was not formed in 6 earth days but that in fact is an easy way for these intellectually limited humans to comprehend. 6 days was a parable. As Jesus so aptly used Parables a couple thousand years later when he came to “show the way”.

Yes many Christians want to take this literally. Because they do does not mean God doesnt exist. If that were the case then democrats and republicans dont exist either cause they cant seem to agree on much either.

Free will and the concept that And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, insures there will always be conflict and that the one overwhelming concept of Religion is “Faith”. God could solve it all by showing up, flashing a bunch of miracles around……..paralyzing man with fear and intimidating him into believing………or he can do what he did…does……allow man the right to decide for himself…….give him the choice…….let him make up his own mind.

In the end that is what makes God………God. His willingness to let YOU decide for yourself without flashy miracles and Godly intimidation.

It is always your choice to believe or not to believe. If you choose to FIND reasons not to believe in God that is your choice and I have no problem with the choice you make.

No I do not believe that God created the earth in 6 days…Remember he rested on the 7th day.

One must always take into account ones audience when speaking or writing. If I am going to give a lecture on advanced Economic theory models I will not fill my class with preschoolers.

Man during this time was fairly primitive. The word of God had been passed down via mouth as was tradition for all men during this time in history. The word of God and the 10 commandments were Mans attempt to understand his relationship with God.

Those who wrote the Bible were not Doctors and Lawyers and Theologians. Nor were they Thomas Jefferson or studied and educated men. They were in fact sheep herders and dirt farmers with very rudimentary understandings of their place in the food chain.

They certainly had ZERO knowledge of 5 billion years of geologic formation. They could not comprehend the flow of lava as a natural process. The movement of the sun and the stars was as foreign to them as would be someone from the future travelling back in time and attempting to teach us a completely foreign version of alternate universes by using a form of math and science that we could not even fathom in our limited intelligence.

Thus the bible was written for Sheperds and flock tenders and dirt farmers with ZERO understanding of Geology, Anatomy, Calculus or scientific analysis of any kind. 3600 years later when your buddy Coppernicus or Galieo

And you haven’t explained about the Copernican theory.

What is there to explain? That the earth revolves around the sun? I give. Your right. Yet it was not God nor was it the bible that indicted Copernicus. It was a religious institution of the day that indicted him. The same institution that marched upon the middle east in crusades.

I repeat. And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, When man chooses his own path it does not mean God agrees with the path they choose. Free will is what makes man unique in the heavens.

This is of course the stock answer that those who fall within this category believe and use.

And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man,

God perfectly understood what was going to transpire within the future of mankind. This version of Genesis is amazingly accurate and it was not Gods intention to teach Cavemen……Calculus.

However modern day unbelievers believe if God is so powerful surely Moses must have been studying Planar Geometry and Quantum Physics in his lab while he tended sheep.

It is only unbelievers attempt to prove the unproveable.

Genesis 2.7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 4.16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Genesis 4.17 ¶ And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Genesis 6.3 And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

I find nothing in Genesis that contradicts my belief. Quite simply the bible is the record of the Spirit of God in man and how Even God himself recognizes that his spirit will not dwell with all men.

The fact of the matter is simple. Man came out of the swamps if you will and at the right moment in time God decided to infuse certain men (Man was walking upon the earth in multitudes at this time)with his spirit. Adam and Eve. Even within their own family….Cain slew Abel and resulted in Cain fleeing and taking a wife that was not of the spirit filled man who were upon the earth at this time.

So I stand by my assertion there is no conflict other then within the Christian community. However to deny their is a God because Christians can’t agree with something that happened 10,000 years ago is a pretty lame excuse for rejecting God.

It also is a pretty lame excuse for Christians to be intolerant of others views as well. The problem becomes that as much as Christians believe they are right, those on the other side believe they are right and the tug of war begins with each side attempting vainly to prove their version of events is correct.

Thus ends your bible lesson for the day……Can I hear an Amen.(Tongue in cheek)

Denying that humans evolved as a life form is like joining the flat earth crowd or refusing to believe that the sun is the center of our universe.

This from the crowd that normally is jumping up and down about dishonesty in our politicians and political system?

Hell, at least give him credit for stating his true beliefs, so an intelligent choice can be made about voting for him.

I think the underlying fear amongst the commentators here is the concern that there are so many true believers out there that would vote for someone strictly because they deny evolution. That is a fair thing to be worried about, so say that rather than attacking him for his personal belief.

I for one am glad to know it is out in the open, not that I would have ever voted for him in the first place. His opinion on evolution is far from his wackiest notion. He makes Ross Perot seem fully rational.

He is this year’s Primary Candy, but will fade very quickly when the voting gets serious.

It quite simply says that God created the Heavens and the earth and on and on and on until he created man. Once the time was right the bible affirms that God breathed his life into man.

Thus he imbued man with God likeness thru the infusion of the holy spirit.

There is room for both in my world too. I believe that the creation of the world did in fact take a few billion years and that when the time was right “God created man in his own image” by breathing into man the holy spirit of god.

Thus:Within the scope of evolutionary science and divine-creator faith, there is ample room to believe in both.

Problem solved. Case closed.

Next question please.

That many Americans don’t believe in evolution is an indictment of our science education and of the cancerous and predatory impact of fundamentalist preachers on the uneducated in our culture. Well-educated people who claim not to believe in evolution are liars, pure and simple.

CBS) (This poll was conducted November 18-21, 2004.)

Americans do not believe that humans evolved, and the vast majority says that even if they evolved, God guided the process. Just 13 percent say that God was not involved. But most would not substitute the teaching of creationism for the teaching of evolution in public schools.

Correct, Pete. I think this is one issue where a “waffling” answer actually sounds the most erudite. However, all other issues aside, strict evolutionists ought to realize they are the whack jobs outside of TMV.