Indiana Governor and Republican Vice Presidential nominee Mike Pence has had a history of not understanding quite how evolution works. RightWingWatch has a video of Pence attempting to "disprove" evolution on the floor of the House of Representatives in 2002.
In the speech, Pence shows that he has no idea what "theory" means in a scientific context and repeatedly cites the Bible as evidence against evolution.
You can read Pence's complete remarks in the Congressional record.
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Facebook TwitterScientists have never claimed we came from “chimps”. There is no “chimps to humans”. Chimps and humans evolved from a common ancestor. Yes, “chimps to humans” is a fairytale, constructed by creationists who do not want to understand evolution even in the slightest and have no arguments against it.
Yes, we both evolved and it’s quite evident as both chimps and humans are apes, and all apes are monkeys, and all monkeys are placental mammals, and all placental mammals are vertabrates, and all vertabrates are animals. That’s evolution.
If you want to argue against that (actual evolution), go for it, beat your brains out, but do not pretend you are arguing against an actual scientific theory here, because you are not. You are arguing against a creationist strawman of what evolution is.
I would like to float over there to tell him about it but im being held down by intelligent gravity.
And yes scientists never hesitate to modify theories when new facts come to light , no matter how long. Does anyone know if pence still believes in the Ptomeliac solar sustem? After all why change the text books after only 1500 years. And who’s this Capernicus clown anyway?
How about the “theory” of chimps to humans? Is it observable? Can it be repeated through experimentation? How can it qualify as a scientific theory if you are desperately looking for evidence to support the belief? In order to test a hypothesis such as this you look for ways to test it to prove it wrong. That is how the scientific method works. You don’t test it by looking for evidence to support what you already want to believe. That is not how real science works. The differences between chimps and humans outweigh the similarities by a 10 to 1 margin. That is usually strong enough evidence to falsify a hypothesis. Macro-evolution is a fairy tale for grownups that don’t understand real science. “Once upon a time, long ago and far away, billions of years ago. Lullaby and good night.”
I would recommend Christopher Hitchen’s masterpiece “God is not Great” to him but I don’t think he’s understand a lot of the big words. Sigh…