Did Rick Perry just admit to violating the US Constitution?

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Aug 18, 2011 11:58 PMNov 20, 2019 3:51 AM

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To say I am not a fan of Rick Perry, Republican Presidential candidate, is to seriously underestimate my antipathy toward him. He is anti-science in almost every sense of the word, and his stance on nearly every issue on which I've heard him speak is the exact opposite of where I stand. But then something like this comes along, and shows just how far outside of reality he is. In this video, a little boy asks him how old the Earth is, and Perry then gives an astonishing answer:

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