Don't Need no Science
Is Bob Park's What's New for 11 May 2007, this quick summary of the Republican presidential-candidate field, demonstrating that science is not a conservative, traditional-family value and that Ars Hermeneutica has its work cut out for it:
BELIEFS: SCIENTIFIC ILLITERACY REACHES CLEAR TO THE TOP.
Last week at the Republican presidential debate, moderator Chris Matthews asked whether any of the wannabes did not believe in evolution. Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Tom Tancredo raised their hands. John McCain waffled: “I believe in evolution, “he said, “but I also believe when I hike the Grand Canyon that the hand of God is there also.” The Sunday Washington Post pointed out that they weren’t that far from mainstream. In an ABC poll a year ago, 61% thought Genesis is literally true.
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on Friday, 11 May 2007 at 20.31
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Hell, Brownback's supporters are still trying to figure out if they trust Galileo.
http://www.totheright.org/?p=452
on Sunday, 13 May 2007 at 01.44
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That this seems a fitting question for presidential candidates says something disturbing about the state of things in American politics.
Maybe a better question would've been, "Do you believe if someone is subjected to dunking and drowns on or before the third submersion that guilt is thus established?"