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Quote[/b] ] Evolution has long generated bitter fights between the left and the right about whether God or science best explains the origins of life. But now a dispute has cropped up within conservative circles, not over science, but over political ideology: Does Darwinian theory undermine conservative notions of religion and morality or does it actually support conservative philosophy?
On one level the debate can be seen as a polite discussion of political theory among the members of a small group of intellectuals. But the argument also exposes tensions within the Republicans’ “big tent,” as could be seen Thursday night when the party’s 10 candidates for president were asked during their first debate whether they believed in evolution. Three — Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas; Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas; and Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado — indicated they did not.
* Monkey Conservatives * (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/us/politics/05darwin.html?ei=5088&en=23e2f88ad3beb5d3&ex=1336017600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print)
KC0VWU
05-05-2007, 03:58 AM
Retards. I can't believe that in 2007 this discussion is still going on. Of course God made the world in 7 days about 6000 years ago. sheesh. And yes, those dinosaur bones are there to test our faith. Buncha heretics, they should all be stoned to death.
KG6JTB
05-05-2007, 04:04 AM
Quote[/b] (KC0VWU @ May 03 2007,21:58)]Retards. I can't believe that in 2007 this discussion is still going on. Of course God made the world in 7 days about 6000 years ago. sheesh. And yes, those dinosaur bones are there to test our faith. #Buncha heretics, they should all be stoned to death.
Why am I still a republican?
Dave
KG6JTB
KC0VWU
05-05-2007, 04:10 AM
Quote[/b] (KG6JTB @ May 03 2007,23:04)]Why am I still a republican?
Dave
KG6JTB
I don't know but we are glad to have you aboard.
kc7jty
05-05-2007, 05:38 AM
Quote[/b] (KC0VWU @ May 04 2007,21:10)]Quote[/b] (KG6JTB @ May 03 2007,23:04)]Why am I still a republican?
Dave
KG6JTB
I don't know but we are glad to have you aboard.
HAAAH!
Quote[/b] (KG6JTB @ May 04 2007,21:04)]Why am I still a republican?
Because the alternative is too terrible to contemplate?
K6BBC
05-05-2007, 05:50 AM
Quote[/b] (KG6JTB @ May 04 2007,21:04)]Quote[/b] (KC0VWU @ May 03 2007,21:58)]Retards. I can't believe that in 2007 this discussion is still going on. Of course God made the world in 7 days about 6000 years ago. sheesh. And yes, those dinosaur bones are there to test our faith. Buncha heretics, they should all be stoned to death.
Why am I still a republican?
Dave
KG6JTB
I feel your pain. I finally went indy when it appeared my party was obsessed with oral sex in The White House.
As far as I am concerned, if a candidate does not believe in evolution, be it natural selection or by the hand of God, they are disqualified and too damn stupid to hold public office. Frankly, anybody who believes Genesis to be history (GWB for one) is suffering from reduced mental capacity. And it’s just not a matter of allowing one their own faith – it’s just juvenile. Grow up.
bbc
k4kyv
05-05-2007, 07:02 AM
Quote[/b] ]In “The Moral Sense” (1993), followed by “The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families” (2002), James Q. Wilson used evolution to explain the genesis of morality and to support traditional family and sex roles...Of Mr. Arnhart, “Larry has a beautiful Darwinism, a James Dobson Darwinism” — referring to the chairman of the Christian organization Focus on the Family — “a supply-side Darwinism.”
Focus on the Family (http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20070415)