Apart from theegregious dismantlingof the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) he ’s in armorial bearing of , Scott Pruitt ’s personal belief regarding the scientific consensus on anthropogenetic mood alteration on a regular basis makeheadline news . irrespective of what he consider inprivate , his role as the Trump administration ’s public obfuscator - in - chief is one he ’s clearly taken on with relish .

Now , as revealed by a stunning report over atPolitico , it seems that climatological research is far from the only skill he ’s antipathetic to . In an interview given to Oklahoma talk of the town radio show in 2005 , he mention   – in - between a profusion of other questionable matter   – that he ’s also not a rooter of the theory of evolution by instinctive extract .

“ I think the foundation of humanism is phylogenesis , and there are n’t sufficient scientific fact to establish the theory of development , and it deal with the rootage of man which is more from a philosophic standpoint than a scientific standpoint , ” the then - State Senator say during his confab .

Saying that “ there are n’t sufficient scientific facts to plant the hypothesis of organic evolution ” is akin to suggest that it ’s not quite clear if magnet can be explained using the theory of electromagnetics . Perhaps they ’re just magic .

In the same way , how is dealing with the origin of our species – or any mintage – more of a philosophical thing than something merit scientific discourse ? Extend that inexcusable lapse of logic to the rest of reality , and we ’d have Doctor of the Church philosophizing about treating Crab . We ’d originate crops and fly to the Moon merely by getting hoi polloi to sit down and have a good , long ponder .

We ’re sure at this item some of Pruitt ’s guardian will attempt to channelize out that , as pass of the EPA , it ’s not his job to deal with the theory of evolution , but then they ’d be missing the compass point . It ’s unquestionably have-to doe with that the executive of the EPA – an federal agency that issupposedto constantly deal with and pursue in scientific research and turn that into public policy – is publicly dismissing a scientific theory so thoroughly accept and key to our understanding of the panoptic macrocosm .

It ’s very much like Rick Perry , the incomprehensible Secretary of the Department of Energy , publically tell that he just doesn’tbuygravity . What if the head of the Department of the Interior , Ryan Zinke , suddenly declare that Pythagoras was talking out of his posterior ?

They have n’t actually said these things , and they do n’t have to forthwith address them in their line of employment . Nevertheless , if they ever did make such utterances , you ’d ( hopefully ) be quite concerned .

At this point , it ’d be more pertinent to ask Pruitt if there ’s any skill hedoesaccept .