Evolution has roiled state and local school boards for years. Now it’s entered presidential politics.
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister, have been explaining their positions ever since they and Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo first indicated in a May 3 debate that they do not believe in evolution.
Their religious views, they say, are compatible with science.
“I think science is marvelous and wonderful, and I enjoy the benefit of it every day,” Huckabee told reporters Wednesday at a lunch. He said he embraces Scripture, but “to me, it’s not a conflict with science.”
People may say the story of creation is “preposterous,” Huckabee said, but “if I believe anything about God, I believe that he’s in the miracle business.”
It matters little to me how long God took to create Heaven and earth. I wasn’t there but I believe He did create them. I remember one scientist saying that the present universe as we know it only took a tiny fraction of a second.
St Peter had a quote too: “A day with the Lord is as a thousand years.” Now this time period was a long time for Peter and the concept of a billion years, yet alone a million years would be lost on him