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Originally Posted by host
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?
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I guess I do suspect the validity of the poll results since most of the Christians I know believe in some sort of evolution, they just think that their god started the ball rolling or something like that. Even if they rejected evolution it wouldn't necessarily mean that they couldn't be decent voters or polititians.
I am much more concerned that many religious people are trying to have their creation agenda taught in our public schools as scientific theory (intelligent design). If they keep this kind of thing up then I think many people will not vote for them.
Most of us are comfortable with having leaders who are religious (Jimmy Carter, GW Bush, etc..), it's when they start pushing their beliefs too much into law that will eventually turn people away from them.