Are Beck, McDonnell et al trying to damage Conservative chances as much as possible at the voting booth in November with this tripe right now?
Ooops. O’Donnell.
It reinforces the discrediting.
:-(
>Creationism is one of the primary ways Conservatism discredits itself to the world.
What? Oh come on, there are a LOT of deficiencies in the evolutionary theory. Here’s the two big ones for me:
1) The transition from nonlife to life; the complexities of even the “simple” forms of life [such as viruses] is staggering. Scientists have been unable to even *engineer* new fully-functional life.
2) The development of sexual reproduction; this doubles the minimum number of entities which are needed to produce another generation compared to asexual reproduction, AND the possession of a “half developed” sex-organs is *exactly* the thing that evolution says should be dropped.
No, I think they are trying to rally the faithful, and hoping that will not cause more harm than good.
I'm certain Beck, O'Donnell et al are sincere in their beliefs, though probably not so well versed in the subject.
Remember, Beck is a Mormon, and they have very literalist views of Creation.
O'Donnell, so it says, is Roman Catholic, so her church teaches the same as most Protestant Churches -- that God created and runs the Universe, and if His methods appear scientifically to be "evolutionary," that's no slap against God, it's just one way He choses to reveal Himself to us.