{"id":818,"date":"2008-12-08T22:56:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T02:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=818"},"modified":"2009-01-31T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T15:20:17","slug":"not-that-it-really-matters-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Not that it really matters now …"},"content":{"rendered":"

But President Bush claims to be just fine and dandy with evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[In an interview with ABC’s “Nightline” on Monday] Asked about creation and evolution, Bush said, “I think you can have both. I think evolution can – you’re getting me way out of my lane here. I’m just a simple president. But it’s, I think that God created the earth, created the world; I think the creation of the world is so mysterious it requires something as large as an almighty and I don’t think it’s incompatible with the scientific proof that there is evolution.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But President Bush claims to be just fine and dandy with evolution. [In an interview with ABC’s “Nightline” on Monday] Asked about creation and evolution, Bush said, “I think you can have both. 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