Trump's VP pick is a "young Earth" creationist as well as a climate change denier.

[LongTomH]

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait lowers the boom on Mike Pence, Herr Drumpf's choice for Vice President, who is playing to the evangelical right as well as the big oil and coal lobby:

I’ve written a word or two about Donald Trump, as you might imagine, but not much on his vice presidential pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (except to say, unshockingly, that he is a climate change denier).

You know anyone picked by Trump to be his running mate almost certainly will have a problem with established science, of course, but it turns out Pence is also a young Earth creationist. And one with a lot of conviction about it, too. In 2002, while a congressman from Indiana, he gave a short speech on the floor of Congress denying evolution, and used quite a few misleading, if not outright false, claims.

Phil offers this video of Pence making a fool of himself on the floor of Congress, then goes on to debunk his dumber statements:

Phil sums up:

I feel that at the very least, a vice presidential candidate should uphold the Constitution, especially the First Amendment.

Not that Trump appears to have any desire to want to, either. That makes them quite the pair. I hope that come November, they can be unemployed together.

[whatthehey]

1. Can't make too much of this though.

42% of the country agree, with much higher percentages among the most reliable voters by age (65+) and the most reliably Democratic voters by education level (HS dropouts). Yes he's a superstitious scientifically illiterate fundy, but everybody to whom those words are meaningful insults is already voting D.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/170822/believe-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx

[joeybee12]

2. And one of the world's biggest homophobes

tried to hold up aids funding by adding a constitutional amendment banning marriage equality.

[Orsino]

3. Not to mention his being a vicious sociopath determined to kill our entire families. n/t

[cali]

4. Pence is the quintessential right wing religious nut

5 faith facts about Mike Pence: A ‘born-again, evangelical Catholic’

http://religionnews.com/2016/07/14/5-faith-facts-on-mike-pence-a-born-again-evangelical-catholic/

[Younemeen]

6. ty

thanks for this

[cali]

7. You are most welcome. And welcome to DU, btw.

[longship]

5. Love me Phil Plait!

He's doing yeoman's work. He is awesome.

R&

[oberliner]

8. "The Bible tells us...

...and I believe that."

[MFM008]

9. Rumps awfulness

Takes away from the Pence awfulness.