Bush tells the truth, and you know what, I think I might actually agree with him.
In an interview for Nightline yesterday, Cynthia McFadden got Bush to admit he believed in evolution:
MCFADDEN: But do you believe in it?
BUSH: That God created the world, I do, yeah.
MCFADDEN: But what about …
BUSH: Well, I think you can have both. I think evolution can — you’re getting me way out of my lane here. I’m just a simple president. But it’s, I think that God created the Earth, created the world; I think the creation of the world is so mysterious it requires something as large as an almighty, and I don’t think it’s incompatible with the scientific proof that there is evolution.
I have never understood the false choice between the Creation Story and Evolution, or between God and Science. You can believe in both, with respect to God being the Why and Science being the How. Did God create the world in six days? Sure, like the question asked in the Scopes Monkey Trial, how long were the days? For Bush, this is a departure from insisting some years ago that creationism be taught in public schools. Maybe he just doesn’t care anymore about appealing to the insane of his party.