The Republican party has been outrageous in its refusal to accept science, and instead back religion as the basis of understanding the natural world!
It is embarrassing how the Darwinian evolution concept has been abandoned in favor of “creationism”, which teaches that the world is six thousand years old and that dinosaurs walked the earth with mankind! 🙁
It is also beyond belief that, despite the evidence of global warming, such as the highest recorded temperatures in the past decade and more, and the rapid melting of glaciers, and so much other scientific evidence that should give us pause and make us want to work toward the dangers of climate change, instead every Republican nominee for the Senate repudiates the idea!
But they all invoke religion, despite the concept of separation of church and state that is part of our Constitution! And realize that the Republican party in the years after World War II and through the 1970s hardly ever invoked religion to the extent they do now, and it is only since the rise of the Christian Coalition in the late 1970s, that science has come under such bitter attack! 🙁
Instead of the Republican party living in modern, changing times, instead it has buried its head in the sand and promoted fundamentalist Christianity as the new science! This is indeed a sad commentary on a party that wishes to govern in the 21st century! 🙁
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ege_RBhh37A&feature=player_embedded#!
All i have to say…
There is numerous evidence to support the fact of evolution and even global warming. One definition for the word fact would be something that has been tested and proved right so many times that it will be a waist of time to try totest it again. For example a person will not jump off of a bridge to test gravity because it has already been proven so many times. Same thing goes for evolution, there is so much evidence supporting evolution like the fossil record or DNA sequencing. For republicans to believe that the world is only 6 thousand years old is rediculous considering dating by radio isotopes puts the age of the earth at approximately 4.6 billion years old. Even global warming has plenty of evidence, one that might hit close to home is the coral bleaching going on in our waters taking what used to be alive with organisms and color now a boring shell of it’s former glory. There is a differance between ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance is not knowing, stupidity is knowing the facts but still denying that it exists.
I’m taking a class at FAU on Evolution and Creationism. It’s mostly discussion based; a class on the controversy itself, and I was really shocked to see the amount of Americans that are on the extreme end of creationism. I went to school learning about dinosaurs and physical science, and it wasn’t until recently that I learned that evolution isn’t being accepted as common scientific knowledge by a good portion of the citizens in this country. It almost makes me think of them as children, with no knowledge of the world past the Flintstones (the only place where humans live physically with dinosaurs. That talk.), it sounds that silly to me.
The numbers have actually grown in the past two or three decades on creationism. I think one of the books by Richard Dawkins said something like 40% of Americans or something like that. There are also varying degrees of evolutionists and creationists. There is even a Flat Earth society, a true denial of all scientific fact, that maintains that the world is not round.
Republicans and Flat Earthers aside, I think that a solid portion of Americans are actually accomodators, that is, they accommodate the theory of evolution into their system of religious beliefs.