He is a physician who received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia (now Georgia Health Sciences University) and he calls himself a "scientist". Yet he proudly utters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eU4B86AL5Go
My mind is blown that someone with such a disdain for the scientific method and reason and facts can be amongst those who chart the course of scientific research at the U.S. government level. In science, data trumps ideology. Facts do not lie. They simply are. When the theoretical framework you use to interpret the natural world no longer fits the facts, you change it to use one that fits better. That is science. Facts do not appear when you start believing in them and reality does not disappear when you stop believing in it. If your world view does not agree with what is factual, your world view is not scientific.
I'm sure all those deer heads behind him would disapprove if they could.
"All that stuff I was taught about Evolution, and Embryology, and Big Bang Theory...all of that...is lies straight from the pit of hell. And its lies to try and keep me, and all the folks who are taught that, from understanding that they need a savior.
You see there are a lot of scientific data, that I've found out as a scientist, that actually show this is really a young Earth. I don't believe the Earth is but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in...6 days as we know them. That's what the Bible says."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eU4B86AL5Go
My mind is blown that someone with such a disdain for the scientific method and reason and facts can be amongst those who chart the course of scientific research at the U.S. government level. In science, data trumps ideology. Facts do not lie. They simply are. When the theoretical framework you use to interpret the natural world no longer fits the facts, you change it to use one that fits better. That is science. Facts do not appear when you start believing in them and reality does not disappear when you stop believing in it. If your world view does not agree with what is factual, your world view is not scientific.
"And that's the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me, of how I vote in Washington, DC."
I'm sure all those deer heads behind him would disapprove if they could.
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