I can understand the ACLU (Anti-American Communist Libertine Union) backing evolutionism. What I CAN'T understand is anybody who'd call himself a republican or a conservative believing in such a thing.
That is because you obviously do not know the meaning of being a republican or a conservative. I also doubt that you know much about evolution, since you refer to it as a belief.
Because we value objective knowledge and have not abandoned our minds to either right or left wing anti-science post-modernism. I have a hard time understanding how a Conservative could believe in creationism/ID. We're supposed to be the rational ones.
Conservatism isn't religious fanaticism, which quickly takes you into nightmarish totalitarianism. Probably you're a conservative only in the sense that the Taliban is conservative.
I can understand scientists concern that science be kept "pure" (for lack of a better word) and why they want to keep non-science out of the classroom. The ACLU is obviously anti-Jewish, anti-Christain, and anti-religion and yet has found very willing accomplices in eradicating religion from schools. For the scientists, it's about science. The ACLU had just found the hot button issue to get science's backing. To tell the truth, I really don't think they give a rat's posterior about whether science is being taught correctly or not as long as they can further their agenda using it.
I know I for one don't object to science being taught properly and I'd bet a lot of other Creationists don't either. I don't think that's the issue with them. The issue is resisting the attempts by the ACLU to by legal precedent to attempt to further their agenda. I believe that's what the Creationists/Christians are fighting. Evolution is just the weapon chosen by the ACLU in that fight because they can get the support of the scientific community and that gives it some teeth.
Being a republican or a conservative is not synonymous with being ignorant in spite of the efforts of the demented left to project that illusion.
Of what conceivable interest to anyone is the pathetic limits of your understanding?
I can't understand why some "true conservative" republicans, back teaching something that has no foundation at all in science, in science class. Or at least no more foundation than astrology, esp, Philosophy or World Religions class, fine.
Nor can I understand why they support lying or "mispeaking" school board members who support their pet cause. I swear I believe Buckingham and the other idiots really believed they were going to get brownie points with God and that somehow their lies didn't count as sin because it was "good intentions" and God would wink at them.
Because some of us RATIONAL HUMAN BEINGS who have studied REAL SCIENCE as opposed to FAIRY TALES happen to be conservative.