GOP Congressman calls evolution lie from 'pit of hell'

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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Rep. Paul Broun said in videotaped remarks that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of hell" meant to convince people that they do not need a savior.

The Republican lawmaker made those comments during a speech Sept. 27 at a sportsman's banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell. Broun, a medical doctor, is running for re-election in November unopposed by Democrats.

"God's word is true," Broun said, according to a video posted on the church's website. "I've come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior."

Broun also said that he believes the Earth is about 9,000 years old and that it was made in six days. Those beliefs are held by fundamentalist Christians who believe the creation accounts in the Bible to be literally true.

Broun spokeswoman Meredith Griffanti told the Athens Banner-Herald (http://bit.ly/Us4O0Z ) that Broun was recorded speaking off-the-record to a church group about his religious beliefs. He sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

It seems unlikely that Broun's remarks were supposed to be kept private. The banquet was advertised, Broun spoke before an audience and the video of his remarks was posted on the church's website.

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Liberty Baptist Church video: http://bit.ly/TefuyK

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OMg How embarrassing for us. Nothing I can say. He is a fellow conservative Georgian, but a first class idiot. How did this man become a doctor ? A supposed man of science. I really wish the fundies would go play with themselves and let the Republican party get back to it's Barry Goldwater libertarian roots.

Edited October 7, 2012 by Run Herschel Run

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..the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

It is necessary to consider separately these two hypotheses, each of which has a distinct branch of the argument corresponding to it. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Stuart Mill - On Liberty, Chapter II: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion

We must allow fools their opinion, and the right to express that opinion, lest our arrogance prove us the bigger fools.

Edited October 7, 2012 by The Patriot

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We must allow fools their opinion, and the right to express that opinion, lest our arrogance prove us the bigger fools.

I don't think the issue is the OP fool having an opinion.

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I don't think the issue is the OP fool having an opinion.

Steven seems to think so, as does AP and Yahoo.

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And you want this guy to control your health care and tax system?