“I find a very good measure of correlation between my religious beliefs and my scientific beliefs, People say, ‘How can you be a scientist, how can you be a surgeon if you don’t believe in certain things?’ Maybe those things aren’t scientific, maybe it is just propaganda” Dr Ben Carson explaining that evolution is not science but propaganda.
Well at least this time around Ben Carson does not have to worry about any questions in the Republican debates about evolution. The RNC has taken control of where and who will be asking what questions this time round.
Ben Carson is not only a New Earth creationist – it is less than 6000 years old – but also denies Global Warming. Doctors are not scientists.
If we follow the stupid down this road it ends at Seventh Day Adventists. Their big thing other than the standard fundamentalist literal belief in scripture, is that the 7th day Sabbath falls on Saturday rather than Sunday and woe be unto those who do not give that 24 hour period their full attention. There is a Bible quote on that!
“And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: All the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.” Numbers 15:32 – 15:36
Ben Carson came in 4th place in last weeks CPAC straw poll, behind three times in a row winner Rand Paul, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz and beat the pants of of Jeb Bush!
This of course makes it a hard road for Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee – who also put their religion above their country and the Constitution, you know, like Muslims do. Here follows some quotes from some of his fans this weekend that should not only worry Huckabee and Santorum but scare the Hell out of you.
“He is a godly man. And if you are a godly man, then all the other adjectives fall into place: morals, values and Christian faith.”
“He is a god-fearing man. The only way he would run is if God grabbed him by the collar and shook him. And when I met him last night, I said, ‘I’m sure glad God is shaking you by the collar telling you to run.'”
“He just has this air of wisdom, almost like he was born to do this, appointed by some higher power to do this. He does have that extra something that nobody else does.”
“He could walk into the patient’s room the evening before surgery, meet the parents for the first time, speak to them for a few minutes, and it was as if God had entered the room.”
I came across an interesting quote last night that says something about what it is that has the power to make a once smart person stupid. Just change GOOD and BAD to SMART and STUPID and there you go.
Bad men will do bad things. Good men will do good things. But only religion can make good men do bad things.