Poll: Most republicans reject concept of evolution - What the hell?

[bigtree]

Gallup Survey Finds 68% Of Republicans Disbelieve Scientific Explanation Of Creation

and, they get that from church . . .

WASHINGTON, June 12, 2007
(CBS/AP)

(AP) The three Republican presidential candidates who indicated last month that they do not believe in evolution may have been taking a safe stance on the issue when it comes to appealing to GOP voters.

A Gallup poll released Monday said that while the country is about evenly split over whether the theory of evolution is true, Republicans disbelieve it by more than 2-to-1.

Republicans saying they don't believe in evolution outnumbered those who do by 68 percent to 30 percent in the survey. Democrats believe in evolution by 57 percent to 40 percent, as do independents by a 61 percent to 37 percent margin.

The poll also said that those who go to church often are far likelier to reject evolution than those who do not. Republicans are likelier than Democrats or independents to attend church services, according to Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll.

At the GOP's first presidential debate last month, the 10 candidates were asked which of them did not believe in evolution. Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo raised their hands.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/12/politics/main2917719.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_2917719

[YOY]

1. The fundies have to think the candidates give a shit about their idiocy

Whether they actually do or not is a whole 'nother game.

Give 'em a fluff issue and watch them come flocking on voting day. The "fiscal responsibility" 'pubs are waking up. The fundies never will and need to be stoked.

[Kali]

2. try "most Americans"

[melody]

6. try "not even close to most Americans" n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. Try "just about half"

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/opinion/polls/main965223.shtml

[bryant69]

3. I do find myself wondering if it is how the question is asked

Or how the question is read.

Bryant
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[EFerrari]

15. I wonder the same thing. Because sometimes it seems as though

the American public is being sold on the idea that it is increasingly more conservative and I don't think that's true. :shrug:

/oops

[bryant69]

17. Makes sense to me - like if they polled "Do you support the troops?"

What do people think that means? Because we all know the right wing in this country are trying to equate supporting the troops with supporting mindlessly invading other nations.

Bryant

[Matsubara]

4. Evolution is not a theory - it is a proven fact beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Darwin's Origin of Species was a theory, and a damn solid one at that.

But evolution, the process, has been observed in numerous organisms within human life time frames - it has been proven, debate over.

[bigtree]

10. yer right

changed that

[Demeter]

5. "Refusing to Evolve for 40 Years!"

you've got to admire that kind of determination, misplaced though it may be....

Actually it's more like 140 years...

[originalpckelly]

7. Why is it that candidates for the missing link are incapable of understanding evolution?

[spanone]

8. So evolution is now a political tool? good god.

[melody]

9. Gallup cooks their data

I don't know how many times I have to say this. Please read the questions asked and
see the bias in them.

[scrinmaster]

11. Well, 40% of Democrats don't believe in evolution either.

[mike_c]

12. taliban....

What more is there to say?

[MasonJar]

13. What a bigoted and ignorant populace we have in the USA.

[Beelzebud]

14. Religion breeds ignorance.

[npincus]

18. this country is f*cked