Just when you think the Republican candidates for President can't drag us back any further in time when it comes to the discussion of important issues of the day, from civil rights to Global Warming, Rick Santorum tries to out do them all.
According to Talking Points Memo:
The Des Moines Register reports from a Santorum campaign stop at the University of Northern Iowa, where he talked about education:
Discussing controversial classroom subjects such as evolution and global warming, Santorum said he has suggested that “science should get out of politics” and he is opposed to teaching that provides a “politically correct perspective.”
So I guess he would rather we go back to when we attributed disease to the imbalance of humors? Why bother using all that fancy math to figure out our budgets if science is the enemy of the people? Why question anything at all? Does he send all his correspondence by carrier pigeon or by horse? I wonder if his "smart" phone scares him from time to time?
We wonder why we cannot move past fossil fuels and dead technologies and why Republicans do not see the worth in funding such things like Nasa and studying phenomena like earthquakes and volcanoes. Maybe we should just pray more that the world does not run out of oil and fresh water and fertile soil? Our faith in God will make sure that the ocean doesn't rise because of the melting icecaps.
Anyone who is so blatantly anti-science should be disqualified from the office since the President has so many of those nasty scientist serve under him as advisors and appointees.
What century are you attempting to win the nomination Mr. Santorum because it cannot be this, or the last one.
Although when looking at the definition of science it explains the failed policies of the GOP of the thirty years.
sci·ence [sahy-uhns] Show IPA
noun
1.
a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
2.
systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
3.
any of the branches of natural or physical science.
4.
systematized knowledge in general.
5.
knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study.