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Ron Paul and creationism II





Lew Rockwell posts a message from a reader complaining about the video showing Ron Paul denying evolution. The reader links to an unedited version on YouTube and seems to think that we should find it reassuring. Here's the new video:

I'm sorry. I'm not reassured.

The original video is missing a couple of passages found in the full video,1 but one of them makes Ron Paul look even worse – unless you wouldn't mind having a President of the United States free of influence from evidence and reason.

I would think it's an interesting discussion, I think it's a theological discussion....

Interesting discussion! Theological discussion! Ron Paul was asked whether he believed the theory of evolution to be true, and he answers that it's an interesting theological discussion. He's asked a question about a scientific issue, and he seems to think it's theological. Granted, his first response was

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