Santorum thinks role of science should be to say ‘we’ll never know’

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story

Would-be presidential candidate Rick Santorum just can’t seem to get his head around the scientific method, which involves looking for explanations of things you don’t yet understand and developing possible answers in the form of testable hypotheses.

Instead, he apprears to believe that anything for which science doesn’t currently have an explanation should be treated as proof of the existence of a Divine Creator and taught to as such to schoolchildren.

Santorum told the editorial board of the Nashua Telegraph this week, “There are many on the left and in the scientific community, so to speak, who are afraid of that discussion because oh my goodness you might mention the word, God-forbid, ‘God’ in the classroom, or ‘Creator,’ or that there may be some things that are inexplainable by nature where there may be, where it’s better explained by a Creator. It’s very interesting that you have a situation that science will only allow things in the classroom that are consistent with a non-Creator idea of how we got here, as if somehow or another that’s scientific. Well maybe the science points to the fact that maybe science doesn’t explain all these things.”

Daily Kos diarist Hunter was scathing in describing Santorum’s remarks, writing, “The man has no gravitas and even less charisma, but comports himself as if he did. The effect is of a whiny adolescent know-it-all who is eternally peeved that society isn’t recognizing his obvious superiority. Add to this a devout narrow-mindedness, a stubborn refusal to even acknowledge others might have opinions or experiences different from his own, and you get the perfect Conservative Religious Whiny Emo Teenage Mutant Candidate.”

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/04/santorum-thinks-role-of-science-should-be-to-say-well-never-know/

[HockeyMom]

1. The earth is FLAT

because science can never know??????

[CTyankee]

5. So our going to the moon was a fraud perpetrated on the American public?

All those shots of earth taken from the moon by astronauts were faked?

[monmouth]

2. I would add a lazy thinker. "God" is the easy way out..n/t

[Evasporque]

3. Why is he still talking?....nt

[Jello Biafra]

4. What's sad is that if Rick could change the word "God" to something like...

"Alien" or "Extraterrestrial", he would be on to something......(excuse my Giorgio Tsoukalos reference).

[saras]

6. I can't tell which end of his digestive tract that is coming out of...

Science doesn't provide ANY positive knowledge. PEOPLE provide the hypotheses, and science gradually rules out the stupid ones. That's really all it does.

No wonder Santorum has a problem with it.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Santorum in another sticky situation

:rofl:

[Ernesto]

8. ‘we’ll never know’

What ricky means is that he & the turd in his pocket "will never know".

[AsahinaKimi]

9. There are certain

Politicians who would love the rest of the country to remain in ignorance. Would love to abolish schools as they stand presently, and replace them with schools of Religion, that cater to their own brand. Given enough time, science and scientists would be thrown under the bus, and the dark ages, would begin here all over again.

[libinnyandia]

11. They sound like the Taliban.

[Initech]

10. I tell you - the earth revolves around the sun!!!

[libinnyandia]

12. Santorum seems to think that the Church to which he belongs is

anti-science. The Churcch has gone a long way since Galileo. THe Church has no problem with evolution.

[LynneSin]

13. You realize if Newt tanks, Santorum could end up with the nomination

We're running out of GOP candidates NOT Mitt Romney

[DCKit]

14. Someday, someone will play "The Brown Note".

While the rest of us are crapping our pants, the (R) candidates and all the teabagger's heads will explode.

[sakabatou]

15. All the dead scientists are rolling in their graves