Presidential Biology

Here’s a quote from George W Bush, from back in 2000. This is the President of the (for now at least) most scientifically advanced nation on earth on the single most important principle of biology, without which biology is just a long list of names:

“On the issue of Evolution, the jury is still out on how God created the Earth.”

Hooooooweeeee…. For some of you this is probably Old News, but hey, it was new to me last week.

Well I suppose it’s no surprise – your President is a Creationist, or is al least willing to pander to Creationists in public. You know: God created the Universe in 6 days (it was such hard work he had to take Sunday off to watch Football), Noah’s flood killed all the extinct animals like dinosaurs (NO Tyrannosaurs allowed on deck!)… and just so happened to arrange the fossils in layers so it looks like they are in evolutionary order (that’s gotta be the most anal retentive catastrophic flood ever…), … that sort of stuff. Genesis as LITERAL truth.

I wonder if there is a connection between this and the 2004 Republican hysteria over those pesky “trial lawyers” and related evil-doers such as “activist judges”…

Well, I guess if you really believe God literally created the Earth in 6 days, and the “Faith-Based” world that goes with that (Faith-based education, medicine, social services, economics…), then I can see why you might have a problem with Lawyers and Judges running around suing incompetent people who fuck things up. Insisting on upholding modern legal principles like freedom of thought and speech, separation of Church and State, scientific regulation of medical and industrial practices, etc., etc.. would not be conducive to the spread of Faith-Based initiatives… especially in medicine… Anyway, the Faithful can’t be held accountable by lowly Trial Lawyers and Activist Judges! They are held to Judgment by a Higher Power!

Which reminds me, here’s another “W” quote – this time when asked if he was going to ask his Dad for advice on whether or not to invade Iraq:

"he is the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength; there is a higher father that I appeal to."

Hmm. I wonder what He said. Sure hope it wasn’t Him who came up with the Nigerian Yellowcake story…

Well, its all a Big Lie anyway. This Administration found God because they knew that was the key to power. If they REALLY believed what they preached, Cheney for one wouldn’t be wasting his time with scientifically educated people like Cardiologists. Hmmm… I wonder… if he really did go to some quack Laying on of Hands to cure his heart condition, and died, would John Edwards take the case?