See here. H/T Secular Right.
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It isn't clear to me from reading that transcript what precisely he thinks. He says that he is not a literalist. He then says "I happen to believe that evolution doesn't fully explain the mystery of life" and then goes on to say "Well, I think you can have both. I think evolution can -- you're getting me way out of my lane here. I'm just a simple president. But it's, I think that God created the Earth, created the world; I think the creation of the world is so mysterious it requires something as large as an almighty, and I don't think it's incompatible with the scientific proof that there is evolution."
This could be some form of ID or some form of theistic evolution or something else. The questions asked were not very precise and Bush's answers aren't very precise eithter. So it isn't easy to tell.
I think evolution can -- you're getting me way out of my lane here. I'm just a simple president.
LOL. Toeing the line and not being sure where it goes. Poor guy.
I love how whenever anyone is questioned about their belief in evolution, it is always phrased in a question about the belief of the origin of life or humans having evolved from monkeys.
The actual hint of understanding that evolution is about a mechanism *cough* changes in allele frequencies *cough* is almost always omitted in the public eye.
Honestly, "believing" we evolved from animals is just like believing that Alexander the Great existed because you heard about him once.
Honestly, "believing" we evolved from animals is just like believing that Alexander the Great existed because you heard about him once.
if you're going to make fun of how stupid people are, you should chill on retarded analogies yourself ;-) accepting a system or theory or framework is not analogous to accepting a single fact.