Todd Akin shows his scientific stupidity yet again...

[Archae]

Now he's attacking evolution.

The Missouri Republican Senate candidate who asserted that women could not get pregnant through "legitimate rape" shared some more wisdom with a tea party group on Thursday, telling them that evolution was not "a matter of science" because "all of the different things that have to be lined up" to create life.

"I've taken a look at both sides of the thing and it seems to me that evolution takes a tremendous amount of faith," Rep. Todd Akin said in audio of the event obtained by Think Progress. "To have all of the sudden all the different things that have to be lined up to create something as sophisticated as life, it takes a lot of faith."

"I don't see it as even a matter of science because I don’t know that you can prove one or the other," he explained. That’s one of those things. We can talk about theology and all of those other things but I’m basically concerned about, you’ve got a choice between [Democratic Sen.] Claire McCaskill and myself."

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/akin-evolution-not-matter-science

[trumad]

1. "evolution takes a tremendous amount of faith"

Teh irony burns.....

[coldwaterintheface]

2. Akin and his ilk have never evolved

These people are beyond hope best to ignore them and keep them out of public office.

[exboyfil]

3. Evolution does not address abiogenesis

So far science does not claim to have a theory regarding the origin of life. Several hypotheses exist, but they are difficult to test (because of the time involved). Evidence of what happened has been obliterated by time. As far as I am concerned we only need to demonstrate one viable path for abiogenesis that starts the evolutionary process to conclude that only physical processes are involved (I expect this to happen within the next fifty years). If we accept that God did it, then that immediately cuts off all lines of inquiry.


Once life does begin then evolutionary forces (common descent through natural selection) takes over. Obviously we have libraries full of facts supporting this theory, and, while it will continue to be tweaked when we learn additional information, the basic conclusion of common descent is a fact.

[justiceischeap]

4. What Christians of his ilk don't seem to grasp

is that if you buy into God being all-knowing and the creator of all... then he created the science they all like to reject so quickly.

[justabob]

6. exactly

God also gave us brains with tremendous capability, if we choose to use them. The "Christians" think "oh god will save us/the planet/ etc..." No dumbass, he/she/it gave us the power to figure out how to save ourselves... and/or how to keep from getting into such predicaments.

[LiberalFighter]

5. How can faith create something from nothing in the beginning? Or after?

As far as Akin's campaign is concerned. The voters should not be voting for someone to be a minister or to institute religious practices.

[CJCRANE]

7. As I understand it, evolution is an observable fact.

So evolution is the what of "what happened?"

Theories such as Natural Selection are the how of "how did it happen?"

Maybe we can let our own version of God be the "why?"

[Archae]

12. Exactly. It's like gravity.

Every time I drop a pencil, it'll fall to the floor.
That's the fact of gravity.

But now what IS gravity?
There's the theory.

[HopeHoops]

8. He's correct. Evolution couldn't have happened. Akin is living proof of the lack of evolution.

[MrScorpio]

9. He probably thinks that the jury isn't in on gravity either nt

[99Forever]

10. That freakin' idiot is proof that...

... dinosaurs still exist today.

Teh stupid hurts.

[Ghost in the Machine]

11. Yeah, because believing some invisible sky fairy scooped up a hand full of dirt & breathed on it to

create a man makes SO MUCH more sense, and doesn't take a bit of faith at all!



This clown, and that Broun whack-a-doodle from Ga. *both* need to be removed from the SCIENCE COMMITTEE *immediately*!