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As I have said before on a different thread, it is my firm belief that Bush will continue his extreme right wing agenda in his second term. He pushed it when a) he did not recieve the majority of the popular vote and b) had a second term election still upcoming. Imagine what he will do with neither of these factors to worry about.
The reason people are so upset is not just because he is so radical, but because he is supported by so many radicals. In the most recent (November) issue of National Geographic there is an article on Charles Darwin. In this article they state that a 2001 telephone survey was conducted (as it was in '82, '93, '97, '99) which found that: "no less than 45 percent of respopnding U.S. adults agreed that 'God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.'" 45 percent of adults in the U.S. don't believe in Evolution!! If someone doesn't know any better on this matter, it is easy to see how they could be persuaded on other matters (gay marriage, abortion). If they have such a closed-minded view of life, then those of us who believe in fossils, natural selection, genetic adaptations and the dinosaurs have no choice but to be appalled; and extremely fearful of what the next four years will bring.
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"Religion is the one area of our discourse in which it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about"
--Sam Harris
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