Absolutely the worst question Tim Russert can ask Ron paul

[derdy]

sorry, but this is a non-issue. Somebody tell me how one's beliefs on creationism and evolution will have an impact on how they will run the country if that person wants the government out of our lives and leave most things up to the states. If this was Huckabee, there may be some cause for worry, because who knows, maybe he'll mandate prayer in the classroom or ban the teaching of evolution. But Ron Paul's platform is individual freedom. Whatever you beliefs happen to be, it is your right to have those beliefs.

I am an atheist and evolution does make a lot of sense to me, but I could care less if Ron believes in it or not.

Touche and Ditto.

 

[kaligula]

as if that is our biggest issue? that worries me. the same ridiculous, disconnected issues always come up when an election rolls around, and we elect people that accomplish nothing other than to make matters worse.

Ron Paul is the only man willing to address the very real problems this country faces.

Precisely, he stated if that were the main issue he wouldn't even bother running for public office. Besides it's not as if any other of the political hacks or journalist hacks have any real scientific understanding of the theories involved anyway(the universe can best explained by the M-Theory, Inflation, and The Anthropic Principle). Politicians can say they believe in evolution...big whoop. It's not like they are then going to say the universe can be totally explained by natural processes and deny the need for any belief in any god.

 

[WilliamC]

Easy answer,

"I believe that evolution is a scientific explanation of biology but I do not believe evolution is any sort of religious explanation about our origins. Tell me again Tim, why this is important to our nations security and economic prosperity?"

 

[indivi]

Easy answer,

"I believe that evolution is a scientific explanation of biology but I do not believe evolution is any sort of religious explanation about our origins. Tell me again Tim, why this is important to our nations security and economic prosperity?"

Bingo.

I'm confident that he will be able to deftly handle anything Russert throws at him.

 

[Trassin]

Easy answer,

"I believe that evolution is a scientific explanation of biology but I do not believe evolution is any sort of religious explanation about our origins. Tell me again Tim, why this is important to our nations security and economic prosperity?"

The second part of your answer is a bad idea.

Tim: "But doesn't the education our children receive directly effect this country's security and economic prosperity?".

The first part works fine though and from there RP can use it to talk about how decisions about things such as what is taught in school are best handled at the local level where the community and, more importantly, the individual has the greatest control over how the issue is handled.

 

[Dieseler]

Ron's personal beliefs don't matter as president. He doesn't like abortions or drugs, yet he'd leave abortion up to the states, and end the war on drugs. As Huckabee said in one of those debates, he's not running to "write the curriculum for an eighth-grade science class". So you worried about a question that wouldn't be worse than any other doesn't help.

Exactly,
Dr. Paul is immune to questions like this simply because he will go back to the Constitution for his answer and not pander to either side like all the rest would.

 

[hocaltar]

This is a silly question with a simple answer.

Answer, Tim: I goto church every Sunday. I believe that God created the heavens and the earth, how he did it is anyones guess.

If RP loses the athiest democrat vote for believing in God but defending the constitution, then we don't want their vote anyway.

 

[Dieseler]

This is a silly question with a simple answer.

Answer, Tim: I goto church every Sunday. I believe that God created the heavens and the earth, how he did it is anyones guess.

If RP loses the athiest democrat vote for believing in God but defending the constitution, then we don't want their vote anyway.

That sounds more like a Huckster answer to me.

You guys know where Huckster is today by the way?
He will be speaking at Cornerstone with the "Jesus ain't the Christ cause Hagee sorta said so crowd."
I'm sensing some real poor judgement from the Huckster along the lines of
he's gonna have some splaining to do lol.

 

[AlexMerced]

this is only a issue with young people, and if they arn't voting for Paul I doubt they're voting at all, so this is a non-issue

 

[eldeeder]

I USED to believe in evolution.

Umm... Thats kind of like saying, "I Used to believe the world was round."

Trust me on this one guys, evolution, never going away, never going to be disproved. We just have WAY too much information that confirms it.

Evolution is an important question to ask candidates because those of us who study it know its foundation and that it is real science. Creationism is not real science. (like it or not) Anyway, we ask the candidates about it because we dont want them making any crazy anti-science laws.


That said, I dont CARE what Ron Paul believes, because he will flat out say its not the governments job to decide that. He can believe in the tooth fairy, easter bunny, and the keebler elves, and it wont bother me.

There is a big difference between a guy saying "God wants us to make a constitutional amendment banning gay marraige" and "It's not the federal governments jobs to decide that."

If you don't want to "believe" evolution, or if you dont want to "believe" the world is round, fine by me. Just dont make federal laws teaching my children your non-sense...

Thats the message we need to get out. It doesnt matter how you feel about these issues, the question is, Should your federal government be involved?