Ben Carson touts creationism during Nashville speech

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NASHVILLE — Republican presidential contender Ben Carson restated his views on creationism

Carson delivered dual speeches Sunday morning during Cornerstone Church in Madison. The difference from Carson, a late neurosurgeon who’s recently surged in GOP presidential polls, sounded during times like a branch debate and a sermon.

“They say, ‘Carson, ya know, how can we be a surgeon, a neurosurgeon, and trust that God combined a Earth, and not trust in evolution, that is a basement of all trust and all science?’,” Carson pronounced during his second speech, referencing “progressives.”

“Well, we know, it’s kind of funny. But we do trust God combined us, and we did only fine. So we don’t know where they get that things from, ya know? It’s not true. And in fact, a some-more we know about God, and a deeper your attribute with God, we consider a some-more perplexing becomes your trust of a approach things work, including a tellurian body.”

This is not a initial time Carson has oral about his doubts on evolution. Several inhabitant publications, including the Washington Post, BuzzFeed

Carson, a Seventh-day Adventist, recently described himself in an talk with CNN as “not a genuine eremite person.”

“I’m a chairman who has a low and abiding faith and attribute with God,” Carson told CNN. “But I’m not unequivocally into a lot of eremite convictions and rituals — ‘You can’t do that, and we can’t do this.’ we don’t trust in that. we trust we have to have a low and abiding faith in God.”

His views and speeches on faith and sacrament have endeared him with devout voters in Iowa and elsewhere, assisting him tie or lift forward of business aristocrat Donald Trump in several recent GOP presidential primary polls.

Carson spent Friday in Memphis before fasten Franklin Mayor Ken Moore during his home Saturday morning for a fundraiser. Carson also attended a fundraiser Saturday in Belle Meade before vocalization during both Sunday morning services during Cornerstone.

Tennessee is among several Southern states participating in a Mar 1 “SEC primary.” The comparatively early date of a primary and a still-crowded GOP presidential margin meant conservative-leaning Tennessee could play a pivotal purpose in selecting a Republican party’s presidential nominee.

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