Evolution/Intelligent Design

Honestly the republican party as made a giant mistake taking this side. As i’ll explain later, they hold the high ground on education when it comes to reform. They damage that high ground, however, when they suggest that science students be taught that the Bible could be right about genesis or anything like that. Teaching students anything in science class that isnt independently verifiable is nonsense.

Total … I repeat … TOTAL NONSENSE

The worst of all, however, is the “young earth” claim. The claim that the entire earth is at the most 10,000 years old is foolish, and here is my logic.

Assume, if you will, that scientists today have a solid understanding of radioactivity. The Manhattan Project produced the very real atomic bomb. It also produced our understanding of radioactive elements, including radioactive decay. It is this process of radioactive decay, an outgrowth of our atomic experiments that have produced verifiable results, that we base our “carbon dating” science on. Elements release particles at certain regular rates, and with these rates we can determine how long an object has been giving off these particles … how long it has existed. We have used this method to date fossils and rocks, which we have found to be millions and millions of years old.

Simply put, the earth and the life on it is old as all hell and we can prove it.

Party closest aligned with my views: Democrat