From: LexisNexis News
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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