Florida Senator Marco Rubio is an attractive, intelligent, 41 year old Senator with a theoretically bright future, who will make an impact on American politics with a long career in the Senate.
But since he has Presidential ambitions, and has already visited Iowa, the first caucus state and earliest Presidential vote in 2016, he will be watched with a microscope and fine tooth comb, and he is, sadly, on the way to self destruction in his quest for the Presidency.
At this point, it is not an issue of whether one believes in all of the viewpoints of Marco Rubio.
Rather, it is a question of his basic acceptance of the validity of Science, and one does have to be, personally, a scientist, to reject the craziness and looniness of evangelical Christians who believe in what they call Creationism!
Marco Rubio told GQ Magazine in an interview that he was not a scientist, and that there is debate among scientists over the age of the Earth!
Come on, Marco, there is NO such debate at all, and scientists agree that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and the study of our earth by geologists and astronomers and others, all brilliant men and women, is that the age of the Earth is extremely accurate.
Sure, it is hard to conceptualize 4.5 billion years, but that does not mean that, therefore, it is not accurate.
But instead, the religious right wing says that the Earth is 6,000 years old, and that dinosaurs walked the Earth alongside mankind!
What a stupid, inane idea that is, but it is portrayed as such in a museum in Kentucky, backed by public funds, not far from the Cincinnati, Ohio airport!
We KNOW that Dinosaurs were exterminated some 65 million years ago by an event called The Big Bang, and there is no debate about that!
Study of dinosaur bones and other fossils confirm their age as way earlier than 6,000 years ago!
History, written records, begin about 6,000 years ago, and mankind had evolved to the form of organized societies by the time when “History” began.
We know that different breeds of man developed from earlier cave man times, and this is all connected to evolution and Charles Darwin, but of course, the religious right denies all of this!
The Christian Right is also refusing to believe that Global Warming and Climate Change exist, a detriment to our future on this Earth.
It comes down to the reality that Religion is based on Faith, but with no factual basis, while Science is based on Observation, Research, and Fact, and the two should not be mixed.
So, Senator Rubio, if you continue to deny that the Earth is older than 6,000 years old; if you continue to deny Global Warming and Climate Change; if you continue to deny Evolution; if you continue to question Science and favor evangelical Christianity over Science; if you continue to come across as ignorant, stupid, and a “Know Nothing”, you may continue your career in the Senate, and might even be a leading figure in the Senate, but you will NOT be a future President of the United States, as the vast majority of intelligent, knowledgeable people in this country will repudiate you, and your decision to permit Christian extremists to attempt to propagandize their desire to advocate mind control over the educated Americans.
Educated and intelligent Americans will not allow the narrow mindedness of Christian extremists to stop the advancement of Science!
Hear Hear and Right On Professor,
As a man of science myself I have to time much less patience for those who oppose the proven facts on this subject.
Allow me to pass on an incident I remember as a 2nd grader. We had just watched John Glen launch and orbit around the earth before returning back to terra firma.
A classmate along with other kids in the neighbor hood were playing in his backyard while his dad was working in the yard. The classmate and all were talking how cool it was that an American had orbited the earth when out of nowhere his dad slapped him along side of his head.
We all stood there in shock and embarrassment for our classmate when the father stated, “Don’t ever let me hear you blaspheme the Bible again. The Bible says that God sent those at the Tower of Babble to the 4 corners of the earth. The Bible say’s the earth is flat and I will not have any son of mine saying the Bible is wrong!â€
So in conclusion this Fundamentalist Christian beat his son on the head for saying what EVERY 2nd Grader knew to be true; that the earth was a globe.
I felt so sorry for this kid that he had such a Screwed up Father who physically abused his son for stating science proven fact…in 1962!!!!
I often wondered what happened to that classmate and if he grew up dysfunctional.
Hello Professor,
I am also pleased to pass on that Allen West, the Black Tea Party Congressman Wing Nut from Florida and a favorite among the most stupid conservative reaches of the Republican Party, today finally faced reality and conceded his re-election fight admitting what everyone else has known for two weeks giving the race to Democratic newcomer Patrick Murphy.
I just finished the posting tonight.
http://engineerofknowledge.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/remember-allen-west-yea-in-due-time-no-one-else-will-ether/
I am also pleased to say this time tomorrow I will be home with my family for the Thanksgiving Holidays. So until Tuesday when I return to Columbus, OH; I am wishing you and your readers good tidings and Holiday.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family, Engineer of Knowledge, and know how much I and my readers appreciate your insights on this blog!
I must say I am very troubled by the incident you reported on here, when you were in 2nd grade. This is an example of child abuse by a religious extremist, a religious whacko, who should have had his son taken away from him for reasons of child abuse and emotional abuse. It is dangerous how there are parents who are religious fanatics, and teach hate and fear, rather than the true teachings of Jesus Christ, and I bet this father is also, likely, anti Semitic, unwilling to accept that Jesus was Jewish, and never became a Christian himself. Jesus wou, in his name, profess on a regular basis!
And Patrick Murphy will represent the northern part of the country I live in, as well as two other counties, and it is a great victory that the radical nut, Allen West, has been repudiated, although I am sure he will come back to plague Patrick Murphy two years from now. But this man will, hopefully, never hold public office again, as he is a danger and a threat to civil discourse! He really needs a mental examination, as he has great anger and intolerance, and was drummed out of the military for abuse of an Iraqi war prisoner. He is no asset to this nation, and the best thing he could do is shut his mouth for good, and go about his life in privacy, but don’t be surprised if he ends up on Fox News Channel, and maybe even gets his own radio talk show, as other right wing nuts have been able, very easily, to do, appealing to a a small sliver of right wing wingnuts who resent the idea of a government being humane.
We KNOW that Dinosaurs were exterminated some 65 million years ago by an event called The Big Bang, and there is no debate about that!
Th Big bang was the expansion of the universe at creation.
Dinosaurs suffered from a possible event of an object colliding with the earth.
Don’t make these mistakes or creationalist will have a fixated field day!
Thank you. I stand corrected!