UNDERNEWS: Pence wants Christian heretics' myth taught in schools

January 29, 2017

Pence wants Christian heretics' myth taught in schools

Mike Pence, 2002 - I believe that God created the known universe, the earth and everything in it, including man. And I also believe that someday scientists will come to see that only the theory of intelligent design provides even a remotely rational explanation for the known universe... I would simply and humbly ask, can we teach it as such and can we also consider teaching other theories of the origin of species?

3 comments:

Greg Gerritt said...: Pence is a dunce; January 29, 2017 at 4:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Intelligent design??

Humans are 90% bacteria, see less than 1% of the light spectrum, have sub-optimal plumbing (breathing, eating, excretory and reproductive!) and are programmed to die. Additionally, 40% of animal species are parasites, and over 99% of all species that ever lived are extinct.; January 30, 2017 at 7:29 AM
Anonymous said...: Intelligent design is insidious nonsense dreamed up by the creationist crowd to make themselves feel better about an argument they lost a long time ago. I.D. is repackaged religious myth masquerading as pseudo science.

ORAXX; January 30, 2017 at 11:30 AM

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