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12. If a candidate for high office doesn't believe in an objectively true thing
Wed May 23, 2012, 05:03 PM
May 2012

then their competence on any other issues is also suspect.

A political candidate who refuses to believe in evolution is exactly the same as one who refuses to believe in plate tectonics, or the germ theory of disease, or gravity. If they're willing to ignore one thing right in front of their faces that simply cannot be denied by any intelligent person, then they're probably willing to ignore inconvenient realities on any number of other subjects.

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