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Gallup Survey Finds 68% Of Republicans Disbelieve Scientific Explanation Of Creation
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- Just imagine the heartache it would cause any decent ape to think that El Chimpo Bushit is descended from their family! Yet, there the evidence is, written on Bushit's monkey face. There is always a black sheep in every family tree, Mama Chimp--try not to feel bad about President Cheetah.
Fortunately perhaps, nobody has polled the Repugniscum on whether the Sun goes around the Earth. - Reply to this comment
- That's wonderful. Did any of these genuises have a course in science or biology? Makes you wonder
what was taught in these ivy league schools. - Reply to this comment
- There's a partial truth here. Even though humans evolve, Republicans don't.
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- It would appear, based on these findings, that those who never outgrow the childish need to believe in fairy tales prefer the Republican agenda.
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- What is even funnier is that there is no real debate, evolution does not deny creation, it simply studies evidence of the steps taken in the process.
Anyone making an argument is proof of one of Darwin's hypotheses re evolution, that development is not a uniform process among species. - Reply to this comment
- ROFLMAO, this is news?
Perhaps because they are governed by their most base animal instincts of fear, greed, and lust, they think others cannot evolve to any higher forms because they thenselves cannot.
Sorry all you neanderthal neocons, much of the world already has left you back there in the stone age... - Reply to this comment
- I disagree. It should very much be a question on which a candidate comments. In an era in which technology and science is crucial to our future, the understanding of these areas is one of the most important things we need to know about a candidate. I could care less about religious beliefs, as long as those beliefs do not hinder rational judgement.
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- What really scares me is that this has become a political issue based on science vs. religion.
What happened to separation of church and state?
This should not even be a question on which the candidates comment.
I forget who said "Religion is the opiate of the masses", but it seems to be true, religion is causing some very troubling divisiveness in our country. Separation of church and state!! - Reply to this comment
- This is NOT unusual for the Southern Fascist running and dominating the Republican Party today. If the same survey was done asking the question "Do you believe Negro's are inferior to White's", the response would be yes. When dealing with the Religious Reich change and progress are not acceptable especially when they feel their religion is threatened. We must all understand that they are not that much different than the Taliban in the Middle East. Anything that seems to be against their view of Religion is NOT acceptable. Anything that does NOT play to their Superiority is rejected.
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- I wish one of the Democrat candidates would dare face this issue, and say firmly that any party, in which a majority do not understand science and reason, just should simply be disqualified from government. There is no other developed country in the world in which the governing party would deny evolution. The US is becoming a scary place. I know officials at the US National Science Foundation, while laughing at the dumbness of the White House, still have to be very careful in public when speaking on basic science - this is dangerous.
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- I guess I shouldn't be shocked by this article, but I am. I want to think that most Republicans are reasonable people-- and I mean this in the most basic sense, human beings with the mental faculty of reason-- but I'm starting to doubt that now. Anyone who doubts the reality of evolution lacks basic reasoning skills. If you want to explain evolution as the result of some divine plan, that's fine, but it difficult to dispute that the process exists.
The fact that 2 out of 3 Republicans do not believe in evolution truly alarms me, because when two factions of impassioned people cannot reason with one another, they often resort to violence. I hope it doesn't come to that in the US, but I'm starting to wonder if one day there will be a battle between the rational progressives and the ideological drones of the Republican party. Until now, we have fought metophorically with words and law (the Scopes trial, etc.)-- and it is pretty clear who the winners are-- but maybe it is going to take fire to teach the slower learners among us. I sure hope not, but how do you teach people who refuse to listen?
God save us from fundamental Christianity! - Reply to this comment
- The flaw in evolution is that most chimpanzees are smarter than Bush.
Posted by omega39 at 09:22 AM : Jun 12, 2007
-We call it parallel evolution, in which one specie may evolve faster than an other, it's the case in what you just mentioned. Thanks for mentioning this. Quite interesting case, 'cause Bush is not the only one that popped up from nowhere, but interestingly enough it's a whole group of chimps on the verge of extinction in the seventies and eighties that resurfaced and took over the white house. They are called the noeconus evangeliticus. - Reply to this comment
- %u201CAlthough it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people...it is true that most stupid people are conservative%u201D
John Stuart Mill - Reply to this comment
- Someone PLEASE do a study on the IQ differences between Republicans and Democrats.
I will assure you that the IQ difference will be tremendous between the two parties. There's a reason Republicans follow Bush over a cliff. It's because they are as stupid as he is.
SERIOUSLY, someone please do this study! - Reply to this comment
- RandalDS, notice it does not say 68pct of Christians disbelieve.... it says 68pct of Republicans. There are plenty of Christians with a brain that can mesh scientific data with faith and beliefs.
There are just not many Republicans with a brain. :o)
Posted by kansas1946 at 11:03 PM : Jun 12, 2007
LOL! True word! - Reply to this comment
- Gallup Survey Finds 68% Of Republicans Disbelieve Scientific Explanation Of Creation
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RandalDS, notice it does not say 68pct of Christians disbelieve.... it says 68pct of Republicans. There are plenty of Christians with a brain that can mesh scientific data with faith and beliefs.
There are just not many Republicans with a brain. :o) - Reply to this comment
- Lord, back to the dark ages. Let the exorisms begin!
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Gallup Survey Finds 68% Of Republicans Disbelieve Scientific Explanation Of Creation
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I think the above statement would be more accurate if it read:
Gallup Survey Finds 68% Of Republicans Disbelieve Scientific Explanation Of Anything. - Reply to this comment
- See my previous post, 8:29 pm. I can't say "most" Christians fall into that category, but most of those I've talked to do, and I agree with you, it's not much of a leap. This survey doesn't really clarify that particular issue, which is unfortunate....
Posted by pakaal at 08:46 PM : Jun 12, 2007
I agree also. Most of the Christians I've talked to believe in a co-existence of the bible and evolution. Many of them are embarrassed by the more fundamentalist ones who stick to a strict literal interpretation of the bible as they feel that they are all being painted with the same brush of ignorance. While I am an atheist I have nothing but respect for many Christians and their right to believe as they feel. It's the bible beaters who feel they have a right to impose their own narrow-minded beliefs on everyone else that give Christians a bad name. - Reply to this comment
- What about those who happen to believe the evolution theory can co-exist with the creation theory? It's not that much of a leap.
Posted by likeitis5050 at 08:43 PM : Jun 12, 2007
See my previous post, 8:29 pm. I can't say "most" Christians fall into that category, but most of those I've talked to do, and I agree with you, it's not much of a leap. This survey doesn't really clarify that particular issue, which is unfortunate.... - Reply to this comment
- What about those who happen to believe the evolution theory can co-exist with the creation theory? It's not that much of a leap.
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