Senator Sam Brownback from Kansas is running for President and does not believe in evolution. To defend his view, he wrote an Op Ed in today’s NY Times which starts off making some surprisingly good points but he winds up seeming pretty creepy and backwards to me in the end. Here is one snippet:

The unique and special place of each and every person in creation is a fundamental truth that must be safeguarded. I am wary of any theory that seeks to undermine man’s essential dignity and unique and intended place in the cosmos. I firmly believe that each human person, regardless of circumstance, was willed into being and made for a purpose.

I thought what brought me into existence was that my parents had sex. Hmmm. His piece gets even loopier and nuttier when he says that any theory that does not state that man is a special being created in God’s mind is not science but atheism posing as science. I’m not kidding, here it is word for word:

While no stone should be left unturned in seeking to discover the nature of man’s origins, we can say with conviction that we know with certainty at least part of the outcome. Man was not an accident and reflects an image and likeness unique in the created order. Those aspects of evolutionary theory compatible with this truth are a welcome addition to human knowledge. Aspects of these theories that undermine this truth, however, should be firmly rejected as an atheistic theology posing as science.

There is actually a lot of evidence that says man’s development was an accident. I love how he throws this word “truth” around. Please note that his man is one of only one hundred senators in this fair land. And he wants to be President. I wonder what he would do with intelligence and/or information that doesn’t fit his worldview. Maybe disregard it like our current President does?