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Do you honestly believe anyone would base their vote for president on the ID/evolution debate?

Yes. Several.

Whether it's true or not, many people regard creationists as uneducated boobs, and would use that as a litmus test against any candidate. The entire Dover school board comes to mind.

This is similar to what (centrist) people would think of a Democrat openly advocating full blown communism or socialism. They'd never get elected again, because that's just too far over the edge. So none of them talk in those terms, even though I have no doubt many of them seriously are communist in everything but name.

As I've said many times, teach evolution all day long and the majority of people will still believe God created humans.

Sure. And many of them believe God created them with an incredibly valuable tool called evolution.

That you've blocked from your mind that it is possible for God to have created evolution first just amazes me. And since that's what the evidence shows happened, then you should believe God did it that way.

The concept is no different than believing that God caused the evaporation, which gave us a load of moisture, that made the rain. Evolution is just a process, and God can create processes, can't He?

Of course God could have used any means he so desired. However, the Bible says he created man and woman as human beings, not ape-like creatures.

And I don't equate those who believe in God as the creator with communists.

But what makes America great is we can all vote for whomever we wish - for good reasons, for bad reasons, or for no particular reason at all.

I just wouldn't ever vote for anyone who publicly stated God was not the creator. You are saying that those who don't believe God is the creator think those of us who do are nuts. And I think just the opposite!

The concept is no different than believing that God caused the evaporation, which gave us a load of moisture, that made the rain.

Genesis 2

1. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
3. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
4. This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens--
5. and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground,
6. but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground--