AL Gov Candidate Responds To Ad: I Do Too Believe In Creationism! (VIDEO)

The Republicans created this monster, now it's devouring them. It's amazing to me to watch these guys vie for the title of Most Insane Candidate. You have to wonder where it ends.

Knuckles drag in the land of cotton.

ever notice the direct correlation between the growing number of faithful numbskulls and the ever increasing lowering of math and science scores?

"Well, I heard Neil Young sing about her
Well I heard old Neil put her down.
Well I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around, anyhow
Sweet home Alabama! Where the skies are blue!
Sweet home Alabama, I'm comin' home to you!"
Yeah!

I was in a discussion with a creationist recently and it has occurred to me who these people really are. These people will accept all types of scientific discovery except the ones that deals with the origins of humanity. They are very similar to the Christians of the Catholic church during Galileo's time (1633) where the church could not accept a helio-centric cosmology and that earth is just a planet, furthermore a tiny little planet on the fringe of a much larger galaxy. To the creationist, by accepting human evolution as valid it strips away (at least in their minds) the last vestiges of human exceptionalism, in other words ‘we are not special in god's eye’, thus debunking if not devaluing much of the religions stemming from Abrahamic traditions. I also notice that these people have no true sense of time or history thus the world is always facing impending doom if something isn't done right now to save the souls of the world. They live in a millennial type fervor thus there need to evangelize and sense that their religion is being attacked. I discovered as well that these people really don’t want a separation of church and state and don’t care really about the politics involved with it thus there willingness to go along and even out right support the corporate-ocracy not aware that they are trying to institute classic textbook fascism. They are very low information types.

I even tried to tell him that if evolution was all junk why are there countless museums filled with bones and artifacts,and libraries filled scientific journals ,etc. Hell if the planet was only 6000 years old that would mean humans and dinosaurs where hanging out together like in the Flintsotnes. You could almost see the disconnect happening in their brains on their faces when you try use logic and they just retort with some nonsense about the bible. The really sad part is that if you just changed the nationality of these people we would be calling them the Taliban or Taliban supporters and we would be trying to change their hearts and minds. Makes you wonder how effective our policy in Afghanistan is when we have these same types of zealots here at home.

Translation ... "I too am an ignorant, drooling moron just like you!"

I thank God that I'm a sedular hunmanist!!!

Cowardly lion: "I do believe in spooks. I do believe in spooks. I do! I do! I do! I do believe in spooks..."

A number of Christian denominations disagree with the every word is inspired position and have no problem with evolution. This guy is a prime example of why we are losing the world wide educational race.

Another day, another example of conservative ignorance. And so it goes.

Let's recap who's running in the GOP primary and polling in the top 3.

Bradley Byrne: creationist.
Tim James: drive's license exam should only be in English.
Roy Moore: Ten Commandments judge.

Well, it is Alabama.

The stupidity and insanity there did not end with George Wallace. It's been going full force for years.

Memo to all science labs and high tech industry professionals: If an applicant comes from Alabama, simply shred his/her resume and move on.

But doesn't he look Presidential? THAT'S the great white hope they've been looking for. The chin, for Chrissake! Sufficient hair for two terms, love the earlobes, the grin, the steely-but-friendly glance!

A clearer example of how stupidity bears the hallmarks of a contagious disease could not be asked for.

Americans requiring other Americans to be as stupid as they are, or else they can't be in the kewlkidzclub - standard.

oh man.. can you imagine in any other modern democracy in the world candidates for public office professing how ignorant they are? only in America.. the "most advanced" country in the world... ha ha ....

The GOP needs to realize that social conservatives are just as much statists as the progressives...both try to use the government to compel participation in their private visions of The Way Things Should Be™

The thing is, while creationism as science is not a bright idea, states deciding curriculum is entirely within both Constitutional authority as well as the spirit of that Constitution (people deciding how they want to run their community).

Those who don't like it are free to fight to change it (easier on the state than the federal level) or move someplace more pleasing to them. If the federal government makes unconstitutional decisions regarding public education (and for the federal government all involvement with public education is unconstitutional), their "values" apply by fiat to the whole country, are virutally impossible to change, and leave the dissatisfied citizen no place to go.

So this is what he's accused of:
"Shockingly, Bradley Byrne told the Mobile Press-Register - “It is unimportant whether some details of the Bible, such as people living for hundreds of years, are factually correct. I think there are parts of the Bible that are meant to be literally true and parts that are not.” Byrne has long been considered by conservatives to be soft on social/moral issues. In fact, Bradley Byrne refused to vote “yes” (voting present) on a bill that guaranteed the right for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in Alabama. The vote was 28 to 0 in favor, including a majority of senate Democrats."

I remember hearing him say that and thinking, "Wow, it's refreshing to hear that kind of lucid perspective from a Republican."

Oh, well. Now he's running for office by coming down four-square against the teaching of actual science informed by empirical data and all that. How sad.

Perhaps when he loses he'll have time to reflect on how far he was willing to go and how much he was willing to dumb himself down in order to attain elected office.

How SWEET it isssssss ...

That ad was put out to produce the exact result we see - to force the fool into a corner where he would make the very statement he has just released, nailing his right foot to Creationism. Now he has to drag that with him all through the campaign. He’s now running openly as a know-nothing, a willful ignoramus, an anti-education throwback. And, as such, he'll be getting question after question from the media (and public) on his stand on education, his proposals on curriculum if he becomes governor. Watch what happens when he starts getting questions on the impact on higher education and the influx (and outflux) of business and research monies that will follow on the state actively promulgating anti-science and the teaching of religion. This, particularly because the anti-science religious folderol he is advocating- “Creationism” - has twice been got not a scientific theory but a religious argument by the Supreme Court (McLean v. Arkansas and Edwards v. Aguillard ) - and, as such, not to be taught in tax-supported public schools.

Of course, we already know what his fall-back position will be: "Intelligent Design" and "Teach the Controversy". In a ruling that is now the model and reference for all such cases on the federal district court level across the nation (Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al). The first was struck down as unteachable on the basis of the rules established by the Supreme Court in the two cases cited above my site and the second concept, "Teach the Controversy", holds no water in the face of these rulings.

I look forward to some reporter having the stones to just stand up undersigned feet and ask this candidate, "how much of the state's money are you prepared to spend attempting to defend such indefensible teachings from the inevitable and inevitably-winning lawsuits against them?”

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And, kudos to the Alabama Education Association for this move. It should be studied and considered by all campaigns against the Republicoids and the Tea-Heads. Provoke them into taking a stand on their fringe issues, their fringe beliefs. Put them into the position of having to defend their more egregious stupidities every day. Drive them into being themselves - their true selves - in public.

Sad but true fact: Even Sarah Palin is not a creationist. She believes in evolution. "My father was a biology teacher," she says, when asked why.

So should we start a write-in campaign for Sarah Palin for governor of Alabama?

I don't ever want to see fundie righties in power in our government; the possibility of their response to an imminent disaster or attack being only "Don't worry - God will save you!" is just too great.

That response is a particularly large possibility if the cost of taking preemptive protective measures would threaten whatever tax cuts for the few the righties had managed to shove through; just ask the under-armored, under-strength military force that got sent into Iraq after Bush's tax cuts.

That biased history book was written by Hebrews, with many parts modified from previous religions.

Bradley exemplifies the staunch faithful that the current government loves...Truth and facts do not matter if one believes.

Sounds pretty reasonable to me dude.

Lou
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Did The Dinorsaurs stomp around in the Garden of Eden, and where the F did the Grand Canyon come from?

Thank Dog I'm an atheist.