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Can We Just Pay the Loyal Bushies to Stay Home for the Remainder of Little Lord Pontchartrain's Reign?

By mikethemadbiologist on December 9, 2008.

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson is a very ignorant man. Sorry, he might get offended by that. Allow me to be more accurate: he's a creationist. Oh boy:

Johnson -- not a Ph.D. scientist -- received his bachelor of arts degree in biology from Taylor University, "an evangelical, interdenominational covenant community committed to advancing life-long learning and ministering the redemptive love of Jesus Christ to a world in need." His Taylor adviser, biology professor Timothy Burkholder told the Inquirer that the school teaches a religion-inflected view of evolution:

We would adhere to the view that God is the creator of all things and in charge of our lives, and I think Steve recognizes that and did from the beginning.

When questioned by reporters, Johnson admitted he does not distinguish a "clean-cut division" between religion and science:

It's not a clean-cut division. If you have studied at all creationism vs. evolution, there's theistic or God-controlled evolution and there's variations on all those themes.

Clearly Johnson studied "creationism vs. evolution"--and failed.

Epically.

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I'm not sure this is fair. He's correct in the respect that there is a continuum of views from YECism onwards based on how much of science one accepts. Moreover, he could be a proponent of theistic evolution. It isn't clear from his comments what precisely he means.

Mark, it doesn't read that way to me necessarily. He isn't a very good speaker and he is apparently trying to give a sound byte response about what is a complicated question.