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Pat Robertson: “If you fight science, you are going to lose your children” | Reduction

Pat Robertson: “If you fight science, you are going to lose your children”

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The most recent Gallup poll found that 46 percent of Americans believe Earth is less than 10,000 years old, and that humans were created in that time. Robertson Science does not have all the answers about precisely how life came to be on this planet, but we can definitively state the Earth is far older than 10,000 years, and is in fact 4. 5 billion years old. The issue recently became news because Marco Rubio said that he didn’t know how old the Earth was, and wasn’t sure if the scientists were right. Good grief. Sinclair Oil‘s logo is a dinosaur for goodness’ sake. It baffles me how someone can fill their tank with gasoline but have no concept of how old the Earth is, or the chemical processes that were necessary to make petroleum happen. Enter Pat Robertson, who appears to have become the voice of reason.

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Pat Robertson

Overall Sentiment: 0.0783065

Relevance: 0.841135

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0he said in response to a question Robertson fielded Tuesday from a viewer on his Christian Broadcasting Network show “The 700 Club.”
-0.200561Robertson acknowledged the statement was controversial by saying, “I know that people will probably try to lynch me when I say this.”
-0.188409“If you fight science, you are going to lose your children, and I believe in telling them the way it was,” Robertson concluded. ...
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  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.38897
  • Mean: -0.12965666666667
  • Standard Deviation: 0
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Marco Rubio

Overall Sentiment: -0.0292262

Relevance: 0.228833

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