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Much of Genesis from the old testament is allagory. Most every religion has a creation story. The problem arises when you look out the window and see the product of that creation, it has to be consistant with the creation narrative or you have reason to question that narrative. There is overwhelming evidence to question the biblical creation story and the more we learn about the earth and the creatures on it, the more convincing that evidence is! For an educated legislator to respond to a question about age of the earth with I have no idea, I am not a scientist, is absurdnon the face of it. I would not expect an a precise answer as no one knows for certain. After all creation is a process not a singular event,
Let the Blood Games continue.
Only weeks after election 2012 and years before election 2016, in a routine interview, a glossy pop magazine popped Florida Senator Marco Rubio with an oddball question: How old do you think the earth is? Rubio responded a bit clumsily and noncommittally. Smelling blood and opportunity, the wolf pack bared fangs and chased.
Their game is either to force Rubio to affirm a personal belief the earth is 4.5 billion years old—disturbing some of his religious supporters--or to mock and stigmatize him and others who could harbor any delusional...
It is not MERELY allegory.