galluppoll.com — This suggests that when three Republican presidential candidates at a May debate stated they did not believe in evolution, they were generally in sync with the bulk of the rank-and-file Republicans whose nomination they are seeking to obtain.
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dimensioJun 12, 2007
"Actually to breech this subject you have to consider the subject of God. God is a perfect being that neccessitates no outside need of any other inference. It would logically proceed then that if existance is in fact God, that everything that exists would have to in some way emanate or be created from him. "How have you determined this? Can you supply evidence for the existence of this entity and, in so doing, demonstrate that this entity posesses the traits that you ascribe to it?If you cannot, then why should your claims be considered any more reliable than an unsubstantiated assertion?
dimensioJun 12, 2007
"Both have presuppositions, both have faith."What presuppositions are involved in the theory of evolution? Please be specific.
kyleandstanJun 13, 2007
I doubt the existence of republicans who aren't either rich or complete morons (or both)! Let's digg that story!
fordiJun 13, 2007
Sorry about them. That's the midwest. In the cities, we try to keep their exposure low - they're just embarrassing - but sometimes, they find their way out of the wilderness and onto a soapbox. Seriously. Sorry.
eggotripJun 13, 2007
Personally, I have no religion and I am a theist. It isn't far out there to feel that there life is not as we see it and evolution/science is not the absolute reality. However, I do believe that we all must go by what we see as opposed to what could be and thus act and make laws like compassionate atheists. I doubt though that the current Republicans have this sort of mentality.
Closed AccountJun 13, 2007
in those days you it was most often 'right' to be christian as a scientist. It gave you more funds to work with:PBtw belief in god doesn't neccecarily exclude the theory of evolution. It does get excluded ofcourse if you take the bible literally. Because the earth would be 4k years old then:P
ccrookJun 20, 2007
Do you know where modern day corn came from? Maize. Do you know where maize came from? Cereal grasses, with the front theory being that hunter gatherers tapping the shafts of the grass to get the seeds only took the weak seeds (selecting these OUT of the gene pool by consuming them) and leaving the ones which stuck to the rachis better which would then reproduce once the cereal grass died. So I guess we genetically engineered maize to exist and therefore modern corn is bad for us.Doing it in a lab is the same thing, less several thousand years.Note natural selection selects for the survival of the species, so genetically engineering higher yield corn would be doing exactly that, which is what the "garden variety" (no pun intended) GM does.