This is what the campaign will be like: Liberal parents goading their own children to pester a governor not about policy, his record or that of his opponent, but about gotcha crap that Mom’s Democrat masters can use against said governor. Petty and purile, but Perry handled it well and, as Ed Morrissey notes, works in a little dig at Mom for the spectacle of hiding behind her own kids and lying the whole time.
The push from Mom to ask “Why doesn’t he believe in science?” is just…an example of wonderful motherhood isn’t it? Right up there with the opening lie, in which she says the kid has a question for the gov. The kid obviously has no question of his own, probably couldn’t care less and would rather be home blasting away on his PS3. But he may ask Mom why she lied and roped him into her lie, when they get back home.
Her answer: Because we’re liberals and it’s all for the cause!
And I wonder…do the dopes chanting “Hands Off Our Medicare!” in the background realize that ObamaCare already cut Medicare?
how old is the earth?
im not sure anybody knows—> correct answer
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you have projection riddled gotcha mom (why doesn’t he believe in science?)
sacrificial kid
nay saying dingleberry chorus droning– “hands off our medicare”
is this an effort to go tit for tat with the “obama heckler?”
The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old (byo).
Earth rocks have been reliably dated at about 3.8 to 4.0 byo and minerals trapped in younger rocks have been dated a bit older.
The clincher is extraterrestrial rocks such as Moon rocks that date to 4.56 billion years.
Perry does not seem to understand what the term “theory” means in science. He seems to think it means “guess”. In science talk a hypothesis is a guess, a theory is a well-established explanation of what we know.
Or maybe he does understand perfectly well.
Wrong! a theory is a (maybe) educated guess, probably with a lot of circumstantial backup but a theory is not a fact. Hence the governors’ reply was accurate, namley evolution is a theory with a lot of gaps in it. And there are a lot of gaps, too numerous to splinter off into with this reply. Thank you for reading.
Get thee to a library.
In common usage theory can mean guess. In science it means something more.
Consider Atomic Theory. It started out as the Atomic Hypothesis. Folks gathered a pile of data and hypothesized that teeny tiny things they called atoms could explain their data. Over several decades that hypothesis transformed into a theory. Al Einstein clinched it in 1905 with his landmark paper on Brownian motion.
The Theory of Evolution is a solid as Atomic Theory. You don’t have to take my word for it. Go do your homework. See for yourself.
Oh, but you neglect the best part: Perry’s answer:
Perry answered that evolution is “a theory that’s out there, and it’s got some gaps in it,” adding that creationism is also taught in Texas schools.
“Why doesn’t he believe in science?” Indeed.
– the theory.
I believe in evolution, not creationism, for reasons too numerous to list.
Rick Perry does not; he follows his religious beliefs (as is his right).
So long as he doesn’t try to legislate his religious beliefs, I dun care what they are. I would not be so sanguine if he was an AGW cultist. =^[.]^=
This is just a “theory” but if you start teaching kids earth science in grade school, and you talk about rocks, the water cycle, plate tectonics, volcanoes, glaciers, oceans, dinosaurs, rainforests and the usual stuff, just how many instructional hours can you devote to either evolution or creationism? Even at the high school level, there is not much instructional material to deliver on either topic. Honestly. It’s not as if the kids care or are going to be brainwashed at school. It is the same material delivered in the same boring way grade after grade after grade. When I was a lad, we must have been taught the parts of the flower every year from 5th grade to junior high and I still do not know why I needed to know about the stamen and the pistil unless it was supposed to be a substitute for sex education. When the local community lost the right to have a say in what was taught in school, public education began to become irrelevant.
At the high school open house last night, the biology teacher told us the freshman class would study microbiology during the first semester, and then move on to organism biology (plants, animals). Sounded okay to me.
Then he said this is the last year they will teach organism bio because the curriculum is changing to follow the national standards. Organism biology will be supplanted by “evolution and the environment”.
Department of Education really must be eliminated so we can return to local control of our schools.
Even in the Granite State, we have brain dead leftist vermin like this mother hiding behind her children. Until the volume of squatters from the Kommonwealth of Kennedy and similar leftist sewer lagoons grew to such hideous proportions, this was a great place to live.
I guess that Perry thinks his god is too stupid to have created the evolutionary process…