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Originally Posted by flstf
I'm not sure how far the religious right has to go before reasonable conservatives abandon the Republican Party. Most of us grew up around religious people and have first hand experience that many are very good and caring people. When the president says something like "God bless the American people" even though we are not believers the words don't bother us much.
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The poll results in my last post are that when asked the more likely explanation for the origin of human life. Less than 1 in 5 Republicans chose "evolution,'' as compared with 43 percent of Democrats.
Do you suspect the validity of these poll results?
More than eighty percent of Republicans polled rejected evolution as the most
likely explanation for the origin of human life.
Is this not an indication that there are a very small number of Republicans
who are secular conservatives ? It seems that the few Republicans who can
seperate science from religion could easily be replaced by an equal number of the huge number of Democrats (more than 20 miilion) who reject evolution as
the scientific explanation for the origin of man.
Do you know a better indicator of religious indoctrination than one that runs deep enough to push acceptance of the theory of evolution from an individual's set of core beliefs?