Obama Supports Evolution

Posted by Christopher Sisk
April 2, 2008 |

Barack Obama did a short interview for the York Daily Record and was asked about his views on evolution. Until now, I wasn’t 100% sure where he stood on this very important issue. Now, I can rest assured that my candidate for president officially supports the teaching of scientific facts and not “… theories that frankly don’t hold up to scientific inquiry.” in our public science classrooms.

Q: York County was recently in the news for a lawsuit involving the teaching of intelligent design. What’s your attitude regarding the teaching of evolution in public schools?

A: “I’m a Christian, and I believe in parents being able to provide children with religious instruction without interference from the state. But I also believe our schools are there to teach worldly knowledge and science. I believe in evolution, and I believe there’s a difference between science and faith. That doesn’t make faith any less important than science. It just means they’re two different things. And I think it’s a mistake to try to cloud the teaching of science with theories that frankly don’t hold up to scientific inquiry.”

I’ve had that little button on side of my blog since I re-launched last month which pretty much spells out my support for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. Don’t worry. I’m not going to start pushing a ton of Obama down anyone’s throat. I probably won’t post too much in the political area at all unless it has to do with a politician’s views on science or religion. All that said, what I really want to see is…

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Comments
Comment by I. Own. MyName on April 2, 2008 @ 11:46 am

Do you really think Gore wants another 4 years as vice president?

Comment by Christopher Sisk on April 2, 2008 @ 5:00 pm

Unfortunately, I don’t thing Mr. Gore wants either the presidency or another vice presidency. He’s pretty much said that he’s not interested. Unfortunately.

Comment by Nicole on June 5, 2008 @ 3:41 pm

Obama is right on every aspect but one in his quote above. Some things in the Bible can be proved by science and that science is Archaeology. Please refer to the History Channel’s series “The Naked Archaeologist”. He proves new things every week! So yes, they do hold up to scientific inquiry.

-Nicole

Comment by Christopher Sisk on June 7, 2008 @ 2:17 am

Sure, certain aspects of the Bible can be proven by Archeology such as locations and the respective timing of those locations. However, I don’t think that Archeology has anything to say regarding divinity or miracles or any of the other supernatural claims of the Bible, or it’s characters.

Do the writing utensils described in the Bible correspond with actual unearthed utensils from the proper time period? Archeology can easily answer that question and prove that whoever wrote the Bible described proper writing utensils within it’s pages. Did a woman supernaturally conceive the child of the one true creator god and did that child grow up to resurrect from the dead? I’m not so sure Archeology can answer that question.

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