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>>Please explain how this diminishes their value as Presidential timber? Are national leadership issues rooted in origin beliefs?

Let’s all get real and remember there is a larger world beyond the fishbowl of evolutionary dogma - FR threads on this issue notwithstanding.<<

So much of the strength of the U.S. come from science and engineering. Its the source of our military strength and our healthcare and much of our economy. Someone who flatly rejects evolution doesn’t have the right mindset to be President, IMO. He is either lying to pander or he is genuinely deficient in understanding of the the world. That’s fine is he’s a stockbroker or a salesman etc. Its not fine for the leader of the free world.

I’ve read the words of Jesus over and over and cannot find where we are called to ignore learning or observation. But that’s what’s required to reject basic science.

I work as an engineer.

I have been a linear circuits designer and a software architect.

Nowhere in any high-tech industry in which I have been involved has any Theory on Evolution had any impact on circuit design or software devolopment.

All engineering takes place on purpose by intelligent design.

Engineering implies a designer, and code implies an author.

You have as much of a strange litmus test of orthodox fitness as religious zealot I’ve ever known. President’s do not approve or disapprove science grants or control the classroom educations. To a degree, they might have an effect, but in the long term it is the embedded bureaucracy that carries forward popular or cultural values/norms.

If anything, I’d think that science-religionists would be fuming over the ascendancy of global warming and junk science as the norm in government sponsored research. The last project I worked on in my university position was a technology to cut lumber drying costs 50%, boost yield and grade 20%. Zero interest by federal funding agencies for further research because it was a resource extraction based industry. That small example is the tip of the iceberg as we all know by the thousands of articles here on FR about shoddy science and agenda driven research.

Frankly, the state of science and science funding scares me a heck of a lot more than some guy’s personal views about the origins of people in the White House. We’ve got bigger fish to fry, mate.