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SHOW: NIGHTLINE 11:44 PM EST
December 8, 2008 Monday

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CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) Is it literally true, the bible?

PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH (UNITED STATES)

You know, probably not. You know, the idea that – no, I’m not a literalist, but I think you can learn a lot from it.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) So you can read the bible and not take it literally? I mean you can – it’s not inconsistent to love the bible and to also believe in evolution say?

PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH (UNITED STATES)

Well, I think you can have both. I think evolution – look, you’re getting me way out of my lane here. I’m just a simple president, but I think that God created the earth. Created the world. I think that the world – the creation of the world is so mysterious it requires something as large as an Almighty. And I don’t think it’s incompatible with, you know, the scientific proof that there’s evolution.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

Do you believe that when you pray to God that that’s the same God that a Muslim prays to?

PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH (UNITED STATES)

I do. I do.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) That’s gotten you into some trouble with your base.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH (UNITED STATES)

Oh, I don’t know. Maybe it does. I do believe there is an Almighty that is broad and big enough, loving enough that can encompass a lot of people. I don’t think God is a narrow concept. I think it’s a broad concept. I just happen to believe the way to God is through Christ, and others have different avenues toward God and I believe we pray to the same Almighty. I do.

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) So the leader of the Taliban is praying to the same God…

PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH (UNITED STATES)

No, I’m not sure he’s praying to a God. I think anybody who murders innocent people to achieve their objective is not a religious person. They may think they’re religious and they may play like they’re religious. But I don’t think they are religious. They’re not praying to the God I pray to, the God of peace and love. And that’s one of the great ironies about this. …

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