re: #416 Dark_Falcon

He can’t give a science based answer without offending his political base. Nor can be openly creationist without risking the alienation of moderate voters who he knows the Republican party needs to woo in Florida. Thus he had to find a way to punt.

Or he could, you know, take a principled stand and reject anti-science bunkum. People are of course free to believe whatever magical sky fairy nonsense they wish to believe, but their beliefs do not in any way impact the simple scientific truth of the world.

This would be like saying that asking him whether 2 + 2 = 4 is a ‘gotcha’ question, and he needs to punt because there’s some segment of his base that believes in “biblical math”, or whatever, and their storybook tells them that those Ivory Tower Elitist Mathematicians™ are just propagandists for Satan. Wouldn’t want to alienate his base now, would he?

Basic science is not a ‘gotcha’ question.