Mike Huckabee coming to Austin

[TheTresLeches]

Maybe when he's done fundraising he can go visit the Glen Rose Dinosaur Tracks up on campus and explain how the tracks are only 6,000 years old and not 230 million years old like those crazy academics believe.

"Mike Huckabee, who raised money near Houston over the weekend (see an account here, plans to have an Austin summit/rally early next month, shortly after Tsunami Tuesday, the Feb. 5 balloting in more than 20 other states.

The former Arkansas governor, a GOP candidate for president, intends to have a barbecue and campaign rally at 11 a.m. Feb. 9 at Austin’s downtown Hilton Hotel. That’ll be less than a month before the once-considered-an-afterthought Texas primaries on March 4."
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[SubliminalHorn]

Oh Milk, don't you know that god put fossils and dinosaur tracks on earth to test our faith?

Sheesh, I thought everyone knew that.

 

[austintexas]

He's running out of cash. The Link

I wouldn't think Austin would be the best place in the U.S. for an evangelical Republican to come raise money.

 

[RyanUTAustin]

I will be sure to stay away from downtown that day.

 

[Meursault]

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[gecko]

Has Huckabee questioned the time line in which the dinosaurs existed...? Or, are you making your statement above based on the incorrect assumption that all Christians deny dinosaurs existed millions of years ago...?

 

[HornsInTheHouse]

Last spring there was a Republican debate in which the question was asked, "Which of you does not believe in the theory of evolution?" or something to that effect. Huckabee and two others raised their hands.

 

[TheTresLeches]

"Huckabee has voiced his support of creationism. He was quoted in July 2004 on Arkansans Ask, his regular show on the Arkansas Educational Television Network: "I think that students also should be given exposure to the theories not only of evolution but to the basis of those who believe in creationism." Huckabee also stated "I do not necessarily buy into the traditional Darwinian theory, personally."
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[theropods]

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[SeeVinceRun]

pass.


scary

 

[getreal]

Huckabee has some great ideas like serious tax reform and getting rid of the IRS as we know it. Just because he has beliefs that are unpopular these days (i.e. Christianity), I suggest you check him out on the real issues and his record of being one of the top governors in the nation.

By the way, evolutionary ideas are changing all the time. Try to keep an open mind.

"Darwin's Theory of Evolution is a theory in crisis in light of the tremendous advances we've made in molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics over the past fifty years. We now know that there are in fact tens of thousands of irreducibly complex systems on the cellular level. Specified complexity pervades the microscopic biological world. Molecular biologist Michael Denton wrote, "Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 grams, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machinery built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world." [5]

And we don't need a microscope to observe irreducible complexity. The eye, the ear and the heart are all examples of irreducible complexity, though they were not recognized as such in Darwin's day. Nevertheless, Darwin confessed, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." [6]
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