Question for the more politically-inclined

[jhetley]

Does Huckabee profess to believe in the literal, absolute truth of the Bible?  As in, to the exclusion of  a billions-of-years-old universe and evolution?  Sun orbiting the earth kind of thing, dinosaurs chasing humans? 

Most southern Baptist preachers of my acquaintance do.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

He got asked that question on television a couple weeks ago, and he ducked it hard, repeatedly. (To me, this says the answer is YES.)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Damn. Perhaps literally.

I was afraid somebody was going to say that. Yes, I know the basic truth that you should never ask a question if you aren't willing to accept the answer.

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

He may have ducked the question because it's a no-win proposition. He needs the evangelical vote to win the nomination, and would have lost a significant chunk of that if he'd said "no"; but saying "yes" would basically be handing the Democrats a bottomless box of ammo if he wins the GOP nomination. (Note that what he actually believes is entirely irrelevant to this.)

(Edited to make it actually make sense.)

[pjthompson]

Yes, he's stated that he believes in creationism.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

More importantly, he's a firm believer in young-earth creationism. Old-earth creationists are bad enough, but young-earth creationists are the full "6000-to-10,000 years since the Creation, and everything that suggests an older age to the universe was created by Satan" shebang.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

As if their God didn't create Satan, with his whole bag of tricks and full fore-knowledge of what that meant...

Jehovah as Loki or Coyote.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

As Bill Hicks used to point out, "I'm a trickster God!"

[david-chunn.livejournal.com]

In an interview I saw, someone asked him if he thought the earth was created in 7 days some six thousands years ago. His answer was basically: "I don't know the specifics, I just know God did it."

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, if Huckabee makes it into the White House and starts insisting that NASA follow a geocentric model of the solar system, I'm going to pass up that ride to Mars...

[pjthompson]

The same gang who run that Creation Museuam, showing Adam and Eve, rabbits, deer, and dinosaurs living at the same time.

[pernishus.livejournal.com]

Well, it's one thing to believe in something and another thing to be active in the pursuit of it, or in imposing it on others... I suspect various groups of folks might be somewhat surprised by my own beliefs (opinions, really, -- which in the case of laypeople (not the religious overtones of that word...) is all anyone purporting to know the answers about the origins of the universe can claim to have) with regard to the Bible/creationism/origins of the Multiverses, etc.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

The problem is, alas, that the current crop of Religious Right in power _has_ been zealous in imposing their beliefs on others. And both Huckabee and Romney are members of Missionary Sects, intent on spreading their dominion throughout all the lands.