{"id":4899,"date":"2005-08-05T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4899.html"},"modified":"2005-08-05T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2005-08-05T14:26:59","slug":"even-santorum-isnt-willing-to-go-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/even-santorum-isnt-willing-to-go-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Santorum isn’t willing to go there"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know the president’s remarks<\/a> about teaching kids about intelligent-design creationism are wildly off-base when Rick “Man on Dog<\/a>” Santorum distances himself<\/a> from the comments.<\/p>\n

A leading Republican senator allied with the religious right differed on Thursday with President Bush’s support for teaching an alternative to the theory of evolution known as “intelligent design.”<\/p>\n

Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, a possible 2008 presidential contender who faces a tough re-election fight next year in Pennsylvania, said intelligent design, which is backed by many religious conservatives, lacked scientific credibility and should not be taught in science classes. […]<\/p>\n

“I think I would probably tailor that a little more than what the president has suggested,” Santorum, the third-ranking Republican member of the U.S. Senate, told National Public Radio. “I’m not comfortable with intelligent design being taught in the science classroom.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Keep in mind, Santorum is not exactly known for his knowledge or credibility on this issue. In 2001, he pushed for a provision<\/a> in Bush’s No Child Left Behind legislation that was intended to promote discussion of creationism in public schools. In fact, Santorum’s measure urged public schools to expose students to “the full range of scientific views that exist” and to “help students to understand why this subject [evolutionary biology] generates so much continuing controversy.”<\/p>\n

And yet, a few years later, Santorum publicly distances himself from Bush’s support for intelligent-design creationism. Did Santorum change his mind about modern biology? Does he reject IDC because he prefers more old-school (young-earth) creationism? Is this just an effort to appear more moderate?<\/p>\n

I’m not sure, but it is entertaining to see Bush taking heat on this, especially from someone like Santorum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know the president’s remarks about teaching kids about intelligent-design creationism are wildly off-base when Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum distances himself from the comments. A leading Republican senator allied with the religious right differed on Thursday with President Bush’s support for teaching an alternative to the theory of evolution known as “intelligent design.” Republican […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}