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Does Mitt Romney believe in evolution?

May 08, 2007 11:20 AM

At the GOP debate last week, only three candidates raised their hands when asked if they did not believe in evolution -- Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas.

Our friend David Brody at Christian Broadcasting News asked former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for a clarification, since Romney is trying to appeal to conservative Christian voters.

Writes Brody (LINK HERE): "The majority of Born Again Evangelicals take the Creationist viewpoint. Some Evangelicals already have concerns about Romney's Mormon faith. He needs support from Evangelicals to win. That's why this issue is an important one that needs to be cleared up. I don't think this is an issue that Romney can avoid. I believe his views need to be clear."

And Brody doesn’t find the answer Romney's campaign gave to be satisfactory. "Governor Romney believes both science and faith can help inform us about the origins of life in this world."

What do you think?

-- jpt

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It is due to the censorship and bias created by our mainstream media that a candidate this foolish has any legs to stand on. A truly fair democratic election would be focused on legitimate issues, instead of knee-jerk shinanigans.

Ron Paul for president

Posted by: enyal110 | May 9, 2007 11:08:46 AM

ABC is to the US what Pravda was to the Soviet Union. The minimizing of Ron Paul's sweeping poll victories and smear tactics against him rival the old Soviet Propaganda sheet.

No wonder people are leaving the mainstream media in droves.

Ron Paul for President.

Posted by: ken wagner | May 9, 2007 11:02:10 AM

What do I think? I think ABC is censoring information about Ron Paul. Why do you keep talking about the same five candidates over and over?

The American people are revolting against the mainstream media's agenda to make us think only 5 people are running for president.

ABC published a hit piece on Ron Paul and deleted comments from Ron Paul supporters.

Is that okay with you?

Posted by: Your Conscience | May 9, 2007 2:50:34 AM

How about the guy who won your poll, Ron Paul? Oh ya, you censored him in hopes that people would forget about him and start talking about war monger Mitt Romney!

Posted by: Censor This | May 9, 2007 1:47:28 AM

I agree fully that the republicans shouldn't waste their time on such petty matters, but everybody needs to keep in mind, that these issues are petty to the republican candidates also. They were asked this stupid question, they didn't bring up the subject. I think the Evangelicals are being picky!!! I don't see what the big deal is about basing your vote on evolution, its like saying I'm only going to vote for romney if he beleives in dinosaurs!!! There shouldn't be anything to clear up!! Do I believe in evolution like the ignorant society? No way!! I don't want my origen from a monkey!! Does evolution exist? You Bet it does!!Everything around us demonstrates that it does? The canyons, the camo fish and reptiles for their defense! Do I beleive in God? Yes. I don't have all the answers, but God does, If he can create worlds, I think he can allow evolution in there!! ALSO I don't why people are saying he doesn't share the same values as those at REGENT. IF ROMNEY DOESNT HAVE VALUES AND MORALS I DON'T KNOW WHO DOES! Apparently they don't know the Mormon Church well. They live up to higher principles and standards than 95% of our US Population. They aren't allowed to evan drink TEA or coffee for crying out loud. Some people say he's to perfect to be a president, he has a mask!! I hate to tell ya, but that is who he is!! He has lived up to high standards his whole life, it is a part of him! He share all the values of any true christian out there!! Pat robertson and Billy Graham's son(THEIR LEADERS)see him as a man of faith and principle! Ya they disagree on doctrine, but they know this isn't about that!! They know he's a leader, a man of faith, and he shares the values they do!! If anybody knows about the values evangelicals have it would be Robertson and Graham!!!

Posted by: sammyD | May 8, 2007 8:36:54 PM

Somehow I don't believe any of our presidential candidates are GOD fearing...

Once I'd thought the Iraq War was all about importing high-grade crude (read legal theft--"we" invaded absent ties to terrorism, and "we" built the pesticide plant converted to make Iraq's WMDs); then it seemed the plan was to undermine global stability to drive the price of oil way up; but now, with Giuliani and Thompson looking to be two of the Republican front runners--on their aggressive anti-terror / anti-crime platforms, and with the Democrat frontrunners looking to be two "others" (there's White men and than the others), I'm thinking maybe all along the big plan was to "hand over the presidency" to a great friend of the rich...!!!

Simply consider how our TWO TERM president never actually won a Presidential Election (see the US Commission on Civil Rights report on the 2000 Presidential Election, and the Rolling Stone article, Was the 2004 Election Stolen?)

Posted by: Michael L. Wagner | May 8, 2007 6:35:25 PM


I agree that true conservatives should hold Governor Romney's feet to the fire, so to speak. Unless and until he's willing in a forthright manner to denounce Charles Darwin as a fraud, he is unfit to be the Republican standard-bearer.

Mr. Romeny has gotten a free pass too often. That closet liberal Pat Robertson let him speak at Regent University despite the fact that he did not fully share the audience's values. These outrages must end.

Posted by: Flat Earth Society | May 8, 2007 4:50:37 PM

I agree wholeheartedly with DKNY. It's beyond a disgrace that, with so many other, more important issues which should be discussed (among them the war in Iraq, terrorism, poverty, taxes, immigration, global warming, and even the price of tea in China), the Repub presidential hopefuls would rather discuss their views on creationism, all the while flailing about, trying to cast themselves as the heir apparent to Ronald ("Ketchup IS a vegetable.")Reagan. It's a pity that the Repubs have to turn the clocks back twenty-plus years to try to distract anyone and everyone from the mess they've created in the present and from the fact that they've no new ideas. Truly pathetic!

Posted by: chuck | May 8, 2007 1:53:22 PM

I think this is what separates Romney from the fringe guys; Romney isn't that far out there. Anyone who disavows evolution would not be viable in a national election for precisely the reasons DKNY articulated. And Romney knows it, hence his nonstatement (I believe in creation AND science!) Talk to the hand, Brody - you're not getting any more than that from Romney.

Posted by: cordelia525 | May 8, 2007 12:11:32 PM

Unfathomable/shocking/mortifying that we are having this discussion in 2007 (and that a Presidential candidate can be taken seriously despite denying evolution!). If, despite the overwhelming evidence that we have evolved, and the absolute absence of evidence that we were divinely created, you still believe in creationism, then you are either stupid or wilfully blind. There's no alternative.

Posted by: DKNY | May 8, 2007 11:55:52 AM

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