10-10-2015, 08:55 AM
(10-10-2015, 08:41 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: No, he's pandering again. It's obvious if you compare him giving a neurosurgery lecture vs. off-the-cuff on creationism...the latter being over-the-top hyperbole that he may believe with respect to faith, but can't articulate as a matter of logic. His many foot-in-mouth moments are exactly what you expect from someone who doesn't really believe what they're saying. That's true of most politicians, he's just far less polished and practiced.
I just think he's a Christain conservative, but far more moderate than the one he is portraying trying to win an election. Don't mistake that as any sort of endorsement - he's just one of many trying to play politician, and doing it comparatively badly. The fact he's polling anywhere above 0 just shows you how dumb the average voter is. And before that gets you all giddy, just wait until Kanye runs in 2020 (he'll do at least as well as Trump).
Who was he pandering to when he defended creationism all the way back in 2006 in a debate with several others?
Na. The guy's a true-blue, Kent Hovind style creationist, and of course he can't "articulate it as a matter of logic" because creationism cannot be articulated logically. It requires, as a rule, the misapplication of certain scientific laws, the complete denial of others, and a constant appeal to ignorance, to name just a few.
