[WildHorseCrash]

That may be so, but belief in evolution doesn't cause that attitude. Even given your argument the benefit of every question (and there are many, such as whether it is actually true that you would get more help in one community over another), you would have, at best, correlation. Disbelief in evolution and this "grace" stem from the same thing, but one does not cause the other. And given the fact that many Christians believe, to a greater or lesser degree, in evolution (mostly theistic evolution) and that many evolution-believing people are the nicest people you'd ever want to meet, it is a very loose correlation, at best.

[Rockingham]

Let's then try approaching this from several new directions.

Consider the civilizational consequences of atheism and aggressive secularism: they are strongly correlated with declining birthrate and national and civilizational decline. Spengler at the Asia Times has done a fine job of analyzing the data and putting his views on a solid foundation.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GH02Aa01.html

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/front_page/ED08Aa01.html

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FI08Aa01.html

As for domestic politics, faithful, Red Staters tend to marry, produce children -- and vote Republican in consequence of those life choices. The statistical evidence is compelling.

http://www.isteve.com/BabyGap.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/opinion/07brooks.html?ex=1260162000&en=ebdde83f03fe6d2e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

And, to draw this back to media distortions of science, George Neumayr has hit the target on the abortion issue.

http://www.theamericanprowler.com/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8531

Neumayer's analysis applies to evolution as well. An aggressively secular and faith-hostile public school system and allied cultural elites and an accommodating news media news have promoted a false account of evolution as somehow disproving Christianity and the existence of God.

Of course, like other parents, most Christian parents cannot make sense of evolution or any other complex bit of science, but they do not want evolution or anything else used to undermine the religious faith and instruction of their children. For that, Christian parents get pilloried as dummies, obscurantists, and book burners.

As Herb Stein famously observed, "that which can not go on forever won’t." Spengler's gloomy assessment may in the end be contradicted by events. In America, at least, evolution-worshiping, abortion-loving, left-voting Blue State atheists seem certain to diminish in numbers relative to married, children producing, conservative Red Staters.

Or, to state the scenario in term of evolution, the greater fertility and fitness of the faith-believing Red State species make them likely to prevail over the less fit and less fertile Blue State species. Now that is a kind of evolution that even Pat Robertson could heartily approve.