Poll: Most Republicans Reject Evolution

Gallup Survey Finds 68% Of Republicans Disbelieve Scientific Explanation Of Creation

(AP)  The three Republican presidential candidates who indicated last month that they do not believe in evolution may have been taking a safe stance on the issue when it comes to appealing to GOP voters.

A Gallup poll released Monday said that while the country is about evenly split over whether the theory of evolution is true, Republicans disbelieve it by more than 2-to-1.

Republicans saying they don't believe in evolution outnumbered those who do by 68 percent to 30 percent in the survey. Democrats believe in evolution by 57 percent to 40 percent, as do independents by a 61 percent to 37 percent margin.

The poll also said that those who go to church often are far likelier to reject evolution than those who do not. Republicans are likelier than Democrats or independents to attend church services, according to Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll.

At the GOP's first presidential debate last month, the 10 candidates were asked which of them did not believe in evolution. Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo raised their hands.

The Gallup survey, conducted May 21 to 24, involved telephone interviews with 1,007 adults. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

[reel-crazy]

Fossil

enough said...

[abbe7]

"But it can take as little as 30 days to evolve fruit flies, a much less complex creation and has been done multiple times in labs. Just ask and biology grad student."
Posted by wfbdem at 09:19 AM : Jun 13, 2007

A key point ... and you could have added HIV, flu ... I'm not sure we have old flu vaccines in excess, but creationists could use them ...

[gunnerv1]

I don't reject it and I'm a Republican from the deep South.

[randalds]

Posted by kansas1946 at 12:26 AM : Jun 14, 2007

The problem is, of course, that fundamentalist creationists don't believe the world is more then 6,000 years old, so to argue with them in terms of 100's of millions of years is an exercise in futility. The newly opened creationism museum for instance holds that dinosaurs were alive during the time of early mankind in the bible (in the Garden of Eden) and in fact were actually on the Ark. They also state that all of the early animals (dinosaurs too) were herbivores in the Garden of Eden and didn't start eating each other until after God kicked Adam and Eve out. How does one rationally argue with such insanity? I don't bother to try to any longer.

[kansas1946]

"It is at odds with the bible, because the bible states that death entered the world when man sinned. Evolution is based upon the survival of one creature at the demise of another creature. This is in direct conflict with what Christians believe (those who put their trust in the bible)."
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This is why we are having trouble defending Darwin's theory of evolution. Most people who argue with it, don't even know what it is, and don't think when they criticize it. I always ask anyone who disagrees with evolution to find me a horse fifty million years ago. Any fossel of any horse that you could recognize. Find me a bird 100 million years ago. Any fossel of any bird. Find me a ****-sapien 80 million years ago. Any fossel of any ****-sapien. Find me a fossel of a flower 200 million years ago. Any fossel of any flower. No. Then where did those things come from. The weren't here then. So something must have changed. Evolution only means "change through time" and Darwin's theory was his effort to explain the change through natural selection.

[randalds]

Lenin and Stalin were both Russian Orthodox (Stalin studied for the priesthood, though only to please his mother) and Hitler was a Catholic. I've never heard of any of them saying anything whatsoever about evolution.

[cfin5]

Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were evolutionists too.

[pakaal]

Evolution is a fraud.... this sends the libtard atheists apoplectic because the dhimmicrats think they are the smartest people in the room. Yeah, real smart...believing that reptile scales magically morphed into flight-worthy feathers is sooooo scientific. Please.
Posted by jht3810 at 09:26 PM : Jun 13, 2007

You should spend less time coming up with pithy insults and more time actually reading some books on science, like the ones that describe how scales, feathers and scutes (oh, my!) are identical in composition and location on the respective DNA strand, or how scutes have been demonstrated to develop into feathers using inhibitor viruses. So scientific indeed. Perhaps that's why you're having so much trouble with it.

Sorry to tell you jht3810, but mocking the truth doesn't make it go away, it just makes you look ignorant.

[jht3810]

Evolution is a fraud that is a disgrace to real sciences like physics and chemistry. But of course this sends the libtard atheists apoplectic because the dhimmicrats think they are the smartest people in the room. Yeah, real smart...believing that reptile scales magically morphed into flight-worthy feathers is sooooo scientific. Please.

[sy2502]

ctthorne,
what part of "I do not believe in a personal god" didn't you understand?

[sy2502]

ctthorne, about Einstein believing in god:

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. (Albert Einstein, 1954)

Some like you think he was a religious man because of his phrase "God does not play dice with the Universe." If you knew what you were talking about you would know that he said it to ridicule Quantum Physics, except that Quantum Physics was, in fact, correct, and Einstein was wrong.

[randalds]

A man who everyone states is one of our greatest thinkers ever, contemplated where he came from and concluded that a creator must been there at the beginning.
Posted by ctthorne at 04:15 PM : Jun 13, 2007

That doesn't mean he was right though, does it?

[itwasntme000]

God love's life or He wouldn't keep creating, and He obviously has a great sense of humor.
Posted by GODSGRACE2 at 01:53 PM : Jun 13, 2007

yea cancer is hilarious. sending hurricanes into populated areas is histarycal. same with earthquakes or tornadows.....how about the couple in the news that lost their house recently and went to sleep in a recycling bin and got crushed and killed when the bin was emptied and compacted. efin hilarious right. oh but that was gods will. he wanted them dead i guess?? knock a person down then take their house away?? I bet they deserved it right!! because they prayed to a different magical easter bunny then the true one and only holy god.

[itwasntme000]

good post ctthorne
Posted by ctthorne at 03:28 PM : Jun 13, 2007

that should answer your question lynettema

+ u wrote
I am educated, not quite a Masters degree. I believe God created through evolution as do many scientists. I do not find them mutually exclusive. You must not have experienced the power of prayer or mediation or a miracle in your life, or you would not state the above. Sad for you.
Posted by lynettema at 03:14 PM : Jun 13, 2007

Ok maybe educated was the wrong word to use, maybe ignorant or blind would serve a better purpose here. BTW you could have a doctorate in lets say electronics and could have skipped on liberal studies dealing with religion or never been in a biology 101 class. book smarts and common sense/street smarts are entirely diff things.

But overall whatever religion was forced down your throat by your parents is what you will most likely grow up to believe(think of religion as a virus...once it has infected many people it filters down and everywhere and is hard to kill). few progress past this and open their eyes. few don't want some of the community to think ill of them for not going. few that begin to have kids don't want the community to think ill of them because they don't take their kids to church. To few people like to learn and read books on subjects of debate and just ask Pastor Pedafile to tell them what to believe on every subject.
need i say more??

[randalds]

What a waste of time. All of this conversation and thought and issues over a fairy tale. I guess I can understand people of intelligence discussing the possibility of a god in a philosophical sense, but to base even a small portion of their life on it escapes me. Still, whatever get's you through the night I guess.

[lynettema]

itwasn'tme wrote:
BTW.....The bible and evolution are bitter contrasts...only the uneducated believe in both which is aparently the case because i am pretty sure more then half of the population in the US claims they are christians.

I am educated, not quite a Masters degree. I believe God created through evolution as do many scientists. I do not find them mutually exclusive. You must not have experienced the power of prayer or mediation or a miracle in your life, or you would not state the above. Sad for you.

[lynettema]

Why do evolution and your belief that God created the earth have to be at odds? It is far easier to believe that we know how God did it than it is to think he said "presto chango" and there was a fully formed person. The evidence is to the contrary. I will believe that God did this all with the wave of the wand when they find the wand.

[randalds]

One question to creationists:

IF "god' created man, why did she put nipples on him?


Posted by nikosk1 at 12:50 PM : Jun 13, 2007

Because they feel good! Why should women have all of the fun?

[godsgrace2-2009]

God love's life or He wouldn't keep creating, and He obviously has a great sense of humor.

[richzurb]

to make you think