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The science-literate posters on this forum have been warning for some time that the dems would use the anti-evolution sentiments of a few activists and attempt to brand the whole conservative movement as a bunch of ignorant, unwashed fools, whose religious views would drag us all back into the Dark Ages.

Then you are right. I am not a true conservative.

I am not certain I understand what you find fault with in that statement, would you elaborate please?

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I am not certain I understand what you find fault with in that statement, would you elaborate please?

In plain English, and in the context of his post he is saying that science-literate posters(pro-evolution and anti-creationist and ID) have been warning the unwashed masses(everyone but rapid evolutionists) that if a few conservatives in the Republican Party adopted ID or creationist views that the democrats could, with obvious justification, attack the whole conservative movement (which he erroneously thinks is 99% pro-evolution) and claim that we all are a bunch of ignorant, unwashed fools, whose religious views would drag us all back into the Dark Ages when in fact that is only true of those that disagree with rabid-evolutionists.

The obvious problems with this statement is:

Noone gives a dang who the guy in the article is or what he thinks.
Evolution has nothing to do with any election one way or another except we might lose the 230 votes PH has on his evo ping list.
Opposite to what he thinks, the vast majority of conservatives either disagree with evolution or do not care about it one way or the other and are Christians.

I really see no difference between the agenda of many of the evos on this thread and the ACLU. But it is more of the anyone that disagrees with an evolutionist is an idiot that sometimes sets me off.

And that post reminded me of a quote by Orwell which was something like "Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them."