Bush does the Clarence Darrow bit from last scene of Inherit the Wind

Ben W. writes:

Aha, Lawrence, checkmate! Gotchya! Evolution is true. The president says so.

Asked about creation and evolution, Bush said: “I think you can have both. I think evolution can—you’re getting me way out of my lane here. I’m just a simple president. But it’s, I think that God created the earth, created the world; I think the creation of the world is so mysterious it requires something as large as an almighty and I don’t think it’s incompatible with the scientific proof that there is evolution.”

The president (albeit a “simple” one according to him) says, “I think” God created the world. It’s just an opinion. But evolution is proven—“scientific PROOF that there is evolution.” So the evidence for creation is subjective and is less than the evidence for evolution in Jorge’s mind.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 09, 2008 07:42 PM | Send