"On these threads the debate is science vs. religion."
I hope you really don't mean that. As you probably already know many of the great men of science such as Galileo, Newton, Descartes were also great men of faith. Most of the people on this thread who talk about Creationism or ID as science are really being quite silly. It bothers me, as a conservative, and as a person of faith that somehow I have to choose between faith and science. I choose to support both. It is most upsetting that some people take pleasure in suggesting that 77% of Republicans don't believe in evolution. More than upsetting it is shameful and I refuse to believe it is a legitimate survey.
Just because 77% of republicans reject evolution, don't assume they are all scientifically illiterate, just because they don't agree with you.
And I posted in this thread a link to another thread where the links to the polls can be found. There are multiple polls. And while Republicans are more likely to reject evolution than rats, a majority of both parties reject evolution. So the evolutionist cry that creationists are going to somehow hurt the party, is just evo fearmongering.
I hope you really don't mean that. As you probably already know many of the great men of science such as Galileo, Newton, Descartes were also great men of faith.
You are correct, but they are not on these threads. On these threads, scientists are continually called "atheists" or "evol doers" or "evilutionists" or some such, if not compared with Hitler and his nazis, and many warm prognostications are made for our afterlives. I think Galileo, Newton, and Descartes would have been treated as badly.
Most of the people on this thread who talk about Creationism or ID as science are really being quite silly. It bothers me, as a conservative, and as a person of faith that somehow I have to choose between faith and science. I choose to support both.
Agreed on both points.
It is most upsetting that some people take pleasure in suggesting that 77% of Republicans don't believe in evolution. More than upsetting it is shameful and I refuse to believe it is a legitimate survey.
I don't know the accuracy of the poll, but I would hate for the Republican party to be associated with Luddites and seen as anti-science.