U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) and Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (not pictured) address the media on September 24, 2012 in Kirkwood, Missouri.
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The Republican Senate candidate who claimed women couldn't get pregnant from "
legitimate rape" is back with more outrageous claims, this time attacking science.
After Rep.
Todd Akin made his "legitimate rape" comment, he faced a vicious backlash including people from his own party. Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, denounced Akin's comments and the Republican hierarchy urged the Missouri Senate candidate to drop out of the race. While the pressure from national Republicans was strong, Akin decided to stay in the race and is running neck and neck with his Democratic opponent, Claire McCaskill.
According to Think Progress, Todd Akin spoke to a group of Tea Party members where he questioned
evolution, claiming that it wasn't actual science.
"I've taken a look at both sides of the thing and it seems to me that evolution takes a tremendous amount of faith...To have all of the sudden all the different things that have to be lined up to create something as sophisticated as life, it takes a lot of faith. I don’t see it as even a matter of science because I don’t know that you can prove one or the other."
The Republican Senate candidate who claimed women couldn't get pregnant from "
legitimate rape" is back with more outrageous claims, this time attacking science.
After Rep.
Todd Akin made his "legitimate rape" comment, he faced a vicious backlash including people from his own party. Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, denounced Akin's comments and the Republican hierarchy urged the Missouri Senate candidate to drop out of the race. While the pressure from national Republicans was strong, Akin decided to stay in the race and is running neck and neck with his Democratic opponent, Claire McCaskill.
According to Think Progress, Todd Akin spoke to a group of Tea Party members where he questioned
evolution, claiming that it wasn't actual science.
"I've taken a look at both sides of the thing and it seems to me that evolution takes a tremendous amount of faith...To have all of the sudden all the different things that have to be lined up to create something as sophisticated as life, it takes a lot of faith. I don’t see it as even a matter of science because I don’t know that you can prove one or the other."
Akin's anti-science comments continue the party line of questionable claims about facts and evidence.
According to a recent Gallup poll, 95 percent of all scientists accept evolution as an absolute fact. As the religious right continues to take over the
Republican party, the anti-science rhetoric from conservatives will continue to grow.
http://www.examiner.com/article/rep-todd-akin-claims-that-evolution-is-not-a-matter-of-science
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