What really bothers me is the fear that the press will soon figure out that they can easily use this creationism stuff to bash the Republican party. When they realize how devastating this tactic will be, you may be certain that at every press conference that every Republican candidate has in the future, the press will ask him his views on evolution vs. creationism. And if the guy says he's a creationist, he'll be ridiculed as an idiot out of the Dark Ages.
I'm seriously worried that Creationism has the potential to destroy the Republican party. As I've said before, this issue will hang like an albatross around our necks. And that's why I think these threads are so important.
And if he says no, he will be castigated by the ID crowd.
I'm seriously worried that Creationism has the potential to destroy the Republican party. As I've said before, this issue will hang like an albatross around our necks. And that's why I think these threads are so important.
This is the issue the Evangelicals will use to hold the GOP hostage, like the greens & left hold the Dems hostage.
This will be our abortion & homosexual marriage albatross. We are handing the MSM and the Dims a club to bludgeon us with.
I agree. The problem is, I don't think science alone is going to convince evangelicals to drop this issue. They will reject whatever scientific argument you give them so long as they believe evolution conflicts with Christianity. That's why we need to focus on how the two are compatible. Unfortunately, I don't see too much progress being made on this front.
I would even say that the media even winces then looks away at this point with creationist GOP politicians because its just somewhere they don't want to go right now. You can see the cringes when new earth people like Falwell boldly proclaim the young earth as gospel. But as this push to force creationism on kids gains more publicity, rest assured at some point the GOP will start getting more and more exposure on this issue and no one will like it.
Again, personally I think the creationism push is an actual threat to national security because creationism is a non-science being pushed off as science. If the creationism push were to run its full course, you will start seeing things like ineffective vaccines against biological agents, or widespread famine caused by insects because the "science" behind the vaccines or pesticides is based on creationism which is not science.
I suppose at that point, creationists would argue that the biological plague or mass American starvation was God's justice and punishment for our "sins" or something while completely denying they had anything to do with America's fall from greatness.