Just before the repeat, MSNBC confirmed that it was Tancredo, Brownback and Huckabee who were the three people that raised their hands saying they do not believe in evolution.
It's important that these people be asked follow up questions on the Germ Theory of Disease, Heleocentrism, Gravity and so on.
Also, someone needs to ask Brownback why he doesn't support Pope John Paul II's statements on how he could not see any conflict between the bible and evolution.
I thought the idea was to embrace the 18th Century Political Ideas of Jefferson, not the 18th Century Biological Thinking of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck .
Tancredo supposedly has something to say in his book "In Mortal Danger", but haven't seen any details on the content.
This is not new for Brownback, as he has earler gone on record playing the "Macro Evolution doesn't exist" lie.
From June 14, 2001
Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas cited the amendment as vindication of the 1999 Kansas School Board decision to eliminate the requirement to teach the theory of evolution in Kansas public schools.
He praised that Board's decision and claimed that "...their vote was cast based on the most
basic scientific principal that sciences is about what we observe, not what we assume. The great and bold statement that the Kansas School Board made was that simply that we observe micro-evolution and therefore it is scientific fact; and that it is impossible to observe macro-evolution, it is
scientific assumption."
That the worldwide scientific community disagreed with Brownback's opinion of the Kansas School Board decision did not deter the senator from urging his colleagues to support the amendment. Nor did Brownback mention that Kansas citizens voted out three of the four School Board members who supported the controversial standards in 1999 and that the newly elected Board decided to include the teaching of evolution in state science
standards.
Huckabee falls into the "It's a Theory, so it's not true" stupidity, with bonus points for "Darwinism" rubbish. I hope people remember to ask him about his thoughts on Newtownianism, Einsteinism, Diracism and Bohrism, (Gravity, Relativity, Quantum Theory, and Atomic Structure)
According to the National Center for Science Education, Gov. Huckabee stated that, "I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that’s why it’s called the theory of evolution. And I think that what I’d be concerned with is that it should be taught as one of the views that’s held by people.
"But it’s not the only view that’s held. And any time you teach one thing as that it’s the only thing, then I think that has a real problem to it...I think that the state ought to give students exposure to all points of view. And I would hope that that would be all points of view and not only evolution. I think that they also should be given exposure to the theories not only of evolution but to the basis of those who believe in creationism...I think it’s something kids ought to be exposed to. I do not necessarily buy into the traditional Darwinian theory, personally. But that does not mean that I’m afraid that somebody might find out what it is..."