Pat Robertson has been saying some surprising things; recently he came out in favor of legalizing marijuana, and today Right Wing Watch notes this section of his TV show 700 Club in which we learn, to our astonishment, that although he believes scientists should not “speculate about the origins of life,” Robertson is not a young earth creationist. Or a flat-earther.

Robertson: God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don’t know what they’re talking about because they weren’t there. They can’t speculate about the origins of life because they weren’t there. If they tell you observable phenomenon then we ought to believe them, and I tell you if you find a geologist who tells you something existed 300 million years ago then you better believe them because he knows what he’s talking about. We don’t want our religious theory go with flat earth.

On the other hand, Pat isn’t exactly a big fan of Charles Darwin or the theory of evolution either: Robertson claimed “evolutionists worship atheism,” evolutionary theory a “cultish religion”.