Jack Kingston: 'I Came From God Not From A Monkey' (VIDEO)

During an appearance on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday night, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) stated clearly that he does not believe in the process of evolution.

"I believe I came from God, not from a monkey so the answer is no," he said, laughing, when asked if he subscribes to the theory. Later in the segment he added, "I don't believe that a creature crawled out of the sea and became a human being one day."

According to a Gallup poll released last month, 40 percent of Americans believe God is responsible for creating human life in its current form roughly 10,000 years ago.

The survey found that 52 percent of Republicans believe in creationism. 34 percent of Democrats and independents maintain the same view, the poll showed. An excerpt of analysis from Gallup:

The significantly higher percentage of Republicans who choose a creationist view of human origins reflects in part the strong relationship between religion and politics in contemporary America. Republicans are significantly more likely to attend church weekly than are others, and, as noted, Americans who attend church weekly are most likely to select the creationist alternative for the origin of humans.

WATCH:

[h/t DailyKos via TPM]

Comments

[OldCowboy]

02:13 PM on 03/25/2011

The interesting thing about religion is that it not only does not require proof, it has no proof of its tenets. In turn for believing in a bunch of unprovable fantasies, you are guaranteed eternal bliss in the final unprovable fantasy. While evolution is scientifically supported, there is absolutely no proof of creationism. In fact, there is demonstrable proof that creationism if patently false.

[alexpope]

07:44 PM on 02/10/2011

Hominids unite: Celebrat International Darwin Day on Feb. 12. The great man's 202nd birthday (along with President Abe). Creationist Congressman with an unevolved brain on Bill Maher.

[GOPNoLonger]

02:22 PM on 02/06/2011

He IS a monkey! Wait! I like monkeys!!!!

[apiazza]

02:06 PM on 02/05/2011

The funny thing about science is that you can not believe it and it's still true!

[SocialistBoy]

04:44 PM on 02/03/2011

I wouldn't be talking like that Mr. Kingston: many years ago, a bunch of, 'Rhesus' monkeys escaped an experimental facility in GA. Mr. Kingston, please see Maury Povich Show for free DNA test!!

This guy has better penmanship the most GOP politicians!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZsdODfdTlM&feature=related

[schnauzergirl]

03:57 PM on 02/03/2011

Well, for the most part he is correct. He did not come from a monkey. He came from his parents, who I would assume (not having heard breaking news stories about a monkey giving birth to a human child) his parents are both human.

Now if we go back to when Hominidae broke off from Catarrhini Parvorder (the last common ancestor with what we currently refer to as "monkeys") his logic gets a lot fuzzier.

[iLdoRight]

04:19 PM on 02/03/2011

I missed seeing the video of that, or was tht just someone's guess ? There is a video series called "Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution" that you may find at your public library that shows some of the lies that evolutionist tell, that have peen proven to be lies, but they just keep telling them anyway. It also shows some very good evidence toward "Creation" and if one does a net search on the phrase "Scientist Against Darwin", I believe it is one can come up with a list of over 600 professional scientist who say they think "Creation" is the more likely correct answer rather than evolution. Some years back I saw a line up of living humans that looked like the evolutionary evolving series of early to late human types, all alive and still in existance today.

[Dimensio]

04:45 PM on 02/03/2011

There is a video series called "Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution" that you may find at your public library that shows some of the lies that evolutionist tell, that have peen proven to be lies, but they just keep telling them anyway. It also shows some very good evidence toward "Creation"

Perhaps you could identify some of the "lies" utilized by "evolutionist".  Additionally, describe the fundamental mechanisms of the event that you term "Creation", and reference the evidence supporting the occurrence of these mechanisms.

and if one does a net search on the phrase "Scientist Against Darwin", I believe it is one can come up with a list of over 600 professional scientist who say they think "Creation" is the more likely correct answer rather than evolution.

I am able to locate, online, a list of on-thousand one-hundred and fifty-three scientists who both accept the validity of the theory of evolution and whose name is or is a variant of "Steve".

Some years back I saw a line up of living humans that looked like the evolutionary evolving series of early to late human types, all alive and still in existance today.

This anecdote does not validate your position.

[Daleri Rileda]

09:41 AM on 02/05/2011

They only want to hear what supports their fantasy.

No intelligence ever came from no intelligence. It is not science to believe something as ludicrous as that.

Oh, but what if we came from a monkey's uncle? What if we came from a bug? What if we came from mud? What if your school taught you baseless nonsense?

What if we have a Creator that designed the basic elements in the entire universe and what if He spoke to the elements and recorded preexisting observable digits of directives in the elements that that they literally and observable obey making us what we are?

What if there is no function in the universe without having a Maker of all of that function that we see with the eyes that He gave us?

[Oceras]

03:06 PM on 02/03/2011

With regard to those who don't care how congressman Kingston feels about evolution, I leave you with this.
When we have a congressman who is unable or unwilling to understand and properly evaluate the Theory of Evolution, the foundation of modern biology and modern medicine, we have someone no one can trust to evaluate other scientific information. When we have a congressman who willfully follows biblical interpretation slavishly, we have a congressman who will most likely also interpret other information slavishly according to biblical precepts that his particular sect follows.

Americans know that we have separation of church and state in this country, and that, therefor, congress has no business interpreting scientific information or any other information narrowly (or broadly, for that matter) based on its members religious beliefs.

As an aside, knowing that God created man before creating animals and plants, do you think Kingston has an explanation for why strata without humans, but with animal and plant fossils, are found below the strata with humans in it, and that no human remains are found below those layers?

[Daleri Rileda]

12:05 AM on 02/04/2011

All of the strata was put down NT the flood because no one can explain where the sediments came from.

[Oceras]

02:42 AM on 02/04/2011

Daleri, I explained it to you in another response. You are a broken record. You say the same thing over and over again, and no one agrees with you.
Maybe we're talking apples and oranges. When you say "the sediments", what do you mean. That would go a long way to our understanding of "no one can explain".

[Dimensio]

07:31 PM on 02/04/2011

Even were your claim that no explanation exists for observation of sediment were not a lie your position would remain invalid.  Your position must be supported by its own evidence; the absence of an alternative explanation -- which is not the case -- does not validate your claim.

[Alec Lee Bleher]

02:54 PM on 02/08/2011

And so the attack on religion begins. "Congress shall pass no law regarding the establishment of religion or the free practice thereof...except when it gets in our way." Christianity is a way of life. The Bible affects what we believe about the world around us and how we behave. That is part of practicing our religion and you have no right to tell us how to interpret scientific data.

[Oceras]

04:01 PM on 02/08/2011

Um. I am a scientist. What's more I'm a geologist. I think I have plenty of right to interpret scientific data, especially geologic data. No one is 'attacking religion'. What we are doing is attacking ignorance and irrationality. You certainly have a choice to remain ignorant and irrational. I'm not trying to interfere with that.
Anyway, the part of the bible that we are questioning is a part that was written long before Jesus. It's not a Christian thing.
Do you believe everything you read? Why make an exception for the bible? The bible has plenty of self-contradictions.

[Essexgirl]

01:42 PM on 02/03/2011

I am fairly sure of one thing....if there is a God, he/she/it intends us to use the brains we have. Mr Kingston should try this some time.

This creationist stuff is such utter nonsense and is seriously holding back real progress.

Here is a simple question for those who still doubt evolution. Why do you need a 'flu shot every year, rather than one per lifetime?

Answer, because the 'flu virus evolves from year to year. A 'flu virus is very small and takes a short time, the polio virus takes longer (hence you don't need an annual polio shot) and an elephant took a very, very long time, but the principle is the same.

Why are antibiotics less effective now than they once were? Because bacteria have evolved with immunity.

If people could actually be bothered to put their brains in gear and study something challenging (ie science) instead of avoiding anything tough, we might get somewhere.

[scottyknows]

02:18 PM on 02/03/2011

It evolves into another virus?

I know you're very smart, but adaptation is different than evolution. My cat getting thicker fur in winter is not proof of evolution. If he changed into a different species in winter, or ever, that would be different.

Think of this. Fruit flies have a lifespan of 24 hours. Over the past 2000 years that's 728,000 lifetimes, equivalent to 25.5 million years for man, using 35 as the age of a generation. Why doesn't this bug evolve?

I know the "scientific" reason is that they don't have to, but neither did a one-celled organism in a vast ocean. (And please don't use the equally scientific answer that "they must have because we're here." That's the sound of science giving up.)

[VikingViking]

04:07 PM on 02/03/2011

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-06/uor-nsf061203.php

[VikingViking]

04:09 PM on 02/03/2011

...and this is where Scottyknows get's his creationist copy/paste nonsense from:

http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/Encyclopedia/10mut10.htm

[Daleri Rileda]

12:08 AM on 02/04/2011

The variation of species is not evolution. It is evolution that is utter nonsense.

[Tater Gumfries]

11:23 AM on 02/04/2011

Don't understand what you mean by "It is evolution that is utter nonsense. "

[Dimensio]

11:38 AM on 02/04/2011

As you have already demonstrated a fundamental lack of understanding of the subject of evolution, your dismissal of evolution as "utter nonsense" is not credible.  You cannot credibly dismiss a subject that you demonstrably do not understand.

[ChinaMurdoch]

12:08 PM on 02/03/2011

No problem - he came from a god - the monkey god !

[alterego55]

12:56 PM on 02/03/2011

Curious George?

[NYC123]

09:21 AM on 02/03/2011

In Genesis 1:24/25, God provided the wording for mutation and adaptation in creation -- other than man!
24 And God went on to say: “Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kinds, domestic animal and moving animal and wild beast of the earth according to its kind.” And it came to be so. 25 And God proceeded to make the wild beast of the earth according to its kind and the domestic animal according to its kind and every moving animal of the ground according to its kind.

For man(kind) God made different provisions vs. the rest of the animal kingdom – see Genesis 1:26/28:

26 And God went on to say: “Let us make man in our image(i.e., God and Jesus), according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth.” 27 And God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 Further, God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth.”

[VikingViking]

10:12 AM on 02/03/2011

"...God provided the wording for mutation and adaptation in creation...bible quote....."

Non sequitur

[ChristianCooper]

10:53 AM on 02/03/2011

Also a little circular reasoning using the bible.

[Daleri Rileda]

12:11 AM on 02/04/2011

The Bible talks about the variation of species when Jacob tended sheep.

[Dimensio]

11:39 AM on 02/03/2011

I believe that you have confused claims of a specific mythology with demonstrable reality.

[Genosse Joe]

08:57 AM on 02/03/2011

iPad and Samsung Galaxy are definately related. They both evolved from the pocket calculators of the 1960s and have first Macintosh PC as their common ancestors as well.

But that hardware evolution was not a result of random doid swaps and natural selection of those boxes with misplaced diods. Each step of that evolution was done by inteligent designers from IBM, Apple, Xerox, Sony, Samsung, etc.

[VikingViking]

09:11 AM on 02/03/2011

...and ??

[alterego55]

12:58 PM on 02/03/2011

Yeah, I'm floored how many believe evolution means one day we popped out of a monkey.

[Genosse Joe]

03:43 PM on 02/03/2011

And evolution might be not too much different

[VikingViking]

09:23 AM on 02/03/2011

"...But that hardware evolution was not a result of random doid swaps and natural selection of those boxes with misplaced diods...."

Goodness.
Macintosh's computers , IBM PC's and so on
don't happen to mate and produce offsprings a lot ...do they ?

It would be SO nice if those who oppose evolution
would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest
rudiments of what it is that they are opposing

[Genosse Joe]

09:01 PM on 02/03/2011

Offspring is of little help here if offsprings with randomly mutated mate will most likely will not survive and the probability of a beneficial random mutation is so low that number of atoms in our Universe would not be able to hit the jackpof once if they would procreate every 10 minutes.

Atoms can not proctreate, don't they?

[Genosse Joe]

07:30 AM on 02/03/2011

I wonder if anybody had noticed that even Darwinists point to apes and not to monkey as human relatives?

[VikingViking]

07:37 AM on 02/03/2011

Huh?

We ( humans, apes, monkeys, dogs , penguins........ whatever) are all 'relatives'.

[Genosse Joe]

08:42 AM on 02/03/2011

Agree. We all relatives as Apple iPhone is a relative of Sony Walkman radio.

There are plenty of common com po nents and common design solutions in both hitech procucts.

It does not mean that iPhone hadevolved from Walkman of from their common pocket calculator ancestors through naturalselection without desighners and engeneres

[Oceras]

01:17 PM on 02/03/2011

And sandworts, slime mold, leeches, dinosaurs, insects, trilobites, and sponges.

[ThinkCreeps]

07:44 AM on 02/03/2011

Darwinists. An interesting new way to describe sane people.

[Genosse Joe]

08:02 AM on 02/03/2011

Sorry if that term applied to those who suport the theory of Charles Darwin offended you. How would you call them?

[sleeper414]

04:33 AM on 02/03/2011

A Republican from Georgia doesn't believe in evolution? Big surprise.

[B 42]

04:05 AM on 02/03/2011

People did not "come from monkeys" or "evolve from chimps" and the Theory of Evolution does NOT claim these statements to be true. The Theory of Evolution cliams that we share a close common ancester with the chimpanzee. Big difference here!

[ChristianCooper]

04:59 AM on 02/03/2011

He uses a strawman arguement to make it easier for his side of the falsehood.

[Logical Observer]

12:16 PM on 02/03/2011

The common ancestor could also be classified as an "ape".

But correcting them by saying "ape, not monkey" doesn't change anything. That's not the point.

[tristrixi]

03:32 AM on 02/03/2011

Of course monkeys come from the Devil. They have tails...

[Oceras]

01:19 PM on 02/03/2011

And so do human embryos.