John McCain Team Responds to Brody File on Evolution and Intelligent Design
May 9, 2007
This just in to The Brody File: John McCain's campaign has provided me with the Senator's take. It comes from what McCain wrote in his 2005 book "Character is Destiny". It's on page 265. So in essence, this is their response to the question on whether he believes in the literal 6 day creation story or the millions of years theory.
"Darwin helped explain nature’s laws. He did not speculate, in his published theories at least, on the origin of life. He did not exclude God, for Whom the immensity of time is but a moment, from our presence. The only undeniable challenge the theory of evolution poses to Christian beliefs is its obvious contradiction of the idea that God created the world as it is in less than a week. But our faith is certainly not so weak that it can be shaken to learn that a biblical metaphor is not literal history. Nature doesn’t threaten our faith. On the contrary, when we contemplate its beauty and mysteries we cannot quiet in our heart an insistent impulse of belief that for all its variations and inevitable change, before its creation, in a time before time, God let it be so, and, thus, its many splendors and purposes abide in His purpose.”
I'll refrain from comment for now because I'm curious as to what you think.Does this help explain his views? Do you want more? Do you care? Do you think I'm wasting my time? Go ahead, I can take it. I'm a big boy.
Now, on Intelligent Design, I asked the McCain camp this question:
Understanding that teaching Intelligent Design is a local issue, does Senator McCain believe teaching Intelligent Design in science class alongside Evolution is a good idea?
Here's the campaign's response:
"Senator McCain believes evolution is supported by science, but that we shouldn’t be afraid to expose students to other theories."
Sounds like he's OK with Creationism being taught as well. Now as for whether he believes it should be taught as a science class or a religion clas, that distinction hasn't been made.
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