One of the most coherent statements to come out of last night’s GOP debate came  from former Utah governor Jon Huntsman.

Mr Huntsman clearly thought some of the other candidates needed a science lesson.

When you (other unnamed candidates) make comments that fly in the face of what 98 out of 100 climate scientists have said, when you call to question evolution, all I’m saying is that in order for the Republican Party to win, we can’t run from science.”

He went on to beg his party to let up on the issue.

If we’re going to win in 2012, we’ve got to make sure that we have somebody who can win based upon numbers of the math that will get us there. And by making comments that basically don’t reflect the reality of the situation, we turn people off.”

Though Huntsman chose not to name names, the indication was that he was speaking to Texas governor Rick Perry, who has a much different take on the whole “science” thing.