“I know a lot of people say that I believe the earth is 6,000 years old, and they have no basis for saying that. I don’t know how old the Earth is,” Carson said on Monday night. “[Genesis] says, ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth’ — and then there’s a period there.”
Carson made these statements after O”Reilly asked, “Are you really a creationist?” to which the retired neurosurgeon said that he believes that “God is our creator,” though he did not directly address a potential belief in a historical Adam and Eve as documented in the Old Testament.
“I believe in micro evolution. I believe in natural selection. But I have a different take on it,” Carson said. “The evolutionists they say there, that’s proof that the theory of evolution is true.”
He continued, “I say that’s proof of an intelligent and caring God who gave His creatures the ability to adapt to their environment so...
