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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 02:20 PM Feb 2012

Santorum: Liberals ‘are the anti-science ones’

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum charged on Monday that President Barack Obama and Democrats were “anti-science” because they refused to exploit the Earth’s natural resources to the limits of technology.

Over the weekend the candidate had been criticized for saying that President Barack Obama followed a theology that was not “based on the Bible.” He later insisted that he was talking about the president siding with “radical environmentalists.”

“I accept the fact that the president’s a Christian,” Santorum told CBS host Bob Schieffer on Sunday. “I just said when you have world view that elevates the Earth above man and says that we can’t take those resources because we’re going to harm the Earth — like things that are not scientifically proven like the politicization of the whole global warming debate.”


The candidate returned to the subject again on Monday at a rally in Steubenville, Ohio.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/20/santorum-liberals-are-the-anti-science-ones/



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Santorum: Liberals ‘are the anti-science ones’ (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Feb 2012 OP
"I accept the fact that the President's a Christian" TomClash Feb 2012 #1
cause I woudn't want anyone to think I'm crazy NAO Feb 2012 #3
"Ayatollah Santorum" ... I like that ... zbdent Feb 2012 #4
rofl. Not Me Feb 2012 #6
He wins. Wait Wut Feb 2012 #2
Santorum's idea of science aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2012 #5
Lead into Gold has been achieved in 1980 by Glenn T. Seaborg Ichingcarpenter Feb 2012 #7
Given the inflated price of gold today, it just might be worth it. nt DCKit Feb 2012 #15
Does he not understand VWolf Feb 2012 #8
the logic-fail is strong with this one n/t dana_b Feb 2012 #9
Any more Repub debates should be held in the Jeopardy format izquierdista Feb 2012 #10
You don't need science to prove the Republicans politicized the global warming problem muriel_volestrangler Feb 2012 #11
Galileo is spinning in his grave. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2012 #12
Nope. Christian fundamentalists are the anti science one's. Initech Feb 2012 #13
He's sounding more and more like a 5th grader (who's failing) every day. DCKit Feb 2012 #14

NAO

(3,425 posts)
3. cause I woudn't want anyone to think I'm crazy
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 02:33 PM
Feb 2012

or anything. -Ayatollah Santorum

Then Frothy Sweater, one of the finest minds of the 13th century went on to say, "The Ten Commandments are our version of Sharia Law".

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
2. He wins.
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 02:32 PM
Feb 2012

No matter what, that was some impressive mental olympics he went through to come up with that one.

Other than that, he's a friggin' loon. A dangerous loon armed with bibles, bombs and the American flag.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
5. Santorum's idea of science
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 02:46 PM
Feb 2012

is putting leeches and mustard poultices on the sick and going "ooga booga" and sprinkling magic dust to try to turn lead into gold.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
7. Lead into Gold has been achieved in 1980 by Glenn T. Seaborg
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 03:11 PM
Feb 2012

but it was using bismuth

In 1980, he transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. His experimental technique, using nuclear physics, was able to remove protons and neutrons from the bismuth atoms. Seaborg's technique would have been far too expensive to enable routine manufacturing of gold, but his work is the closest to the mythical Philosopher's Stone.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_T._Seaborg

VWolf

(3,944 posts)
8. Does he not understand
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 03:37 PM
Feb 2012

the difference between science and technology???

What a f'king putz!

Liberals use science and scientific data to temper technology so that it is used responsibly. What's so damned difficult to understand about that?

 

izquierdista

(11,689 posts)
10. Any more Repub debates should be held in the Jeopardy format
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 03:42 PM
Feb 2012

And in addition to debiting the score for a wrong answer, there should be an electric shock to the backside. They wouldn't get to the first commercial before they were all jumping.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,385 posts)
11. You don't need science to prove the Republicans politicized the global warming problem
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 03:46 PM
Feb 2012

Just look at politics around the world. Centre-right parties in the rest of the developed world know that global warming is real, and man-made; it's only the US Republicans who come up with crap like "it's all a hoax to get more science funding" or "it's a leftist plot to socialize everything".

Initech

(100,107 posts)
13. Nope. Christian fundamentalists are the anti science one's.
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 04:20 PM
Feb 2012

Remember W and how he had to hide for a week before emerging with the idea that stem cells were bad and we should cut funding? Ol Rick needs to take a good hard look at that admin.

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
14. He's sounding more and more like a 5th grader (who's failing) every day.
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 07:47 PM
Feb 2012

Whoever handed this moran his college diploma needs to answer for it in a court of law. Clearly a case of fraud.

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