that the world is older than 6500 years first.

that the world is older than 6500 years first.
@anon76@TyPollardProbably true but I spent much of the last 4 years hearing from conservatives how much better Hillary would have been and Bill was not radical like Obama. Of course they hated the Clintons in the '90s but rewriting history is what they do.
Is this the famous President-to-be Rubio? I How could he be so dam stupid to 'gracefully' pose with the two (unknwon) self invited ordinary twins from Tampa involved with Allen and Petraous??? No way this man could become the next President...too eager? or too young too.
I guess he's doubling down on remaining the Party of Stupid.He *could* have said that scientists know that car diagnostic scanner the Earth is ~4.5billion years old, just like what is taught school children, but that doesn't really have anything to launch x431 do with the workings of the country. But no. He even, for no reason, extrapolated the question out to be about the age of the universe, (a more scientifically colorful topic than the age of the Earth), and the origins of the universe (a seriously colorful topic amongst astrophysicists).More crap about teaching kids multiple theories of everything when there aren't multiple *scientific* theories to teach in the first place. All other issues notwithstanding, until the GOP stops this anti-science stupid as part of their platform, they deserve zero respect, viability, or credibility. It offends me as a scientist--my liberalism has nothing to do with it.
The Bible is not a work that warrants Literal interpretation. For example, if you read the entire Bible, you will see that 40 years is used in the loosest of ways to signify a VERY long time--the interpretation depends on the scholarly interpretation of the Torah and other Old Testamenttexts.I think, most importantly, that NEITHER Rubio nor anyone else on the Far Right have earned the right to speak for US, Christians. Many of these folks have neither read the Bible nor do theyunderstand it, and most use it as a cover for their untenable racist and