Republicans Belief in Evolution plummets

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Orange_Crush said:
That is a nonsensical statement-- similar to "Creation can't explain a three sided circle."

And edit:

I wasn't bagging on Darwinian evolution. The theory wasn't created to explain the beginning of life.
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Saying creation cannot explain how God began is no more nonsensical then saying evolution cannot explain how life began. Both only deal with what happens after the starting point, not the starting point itself.
 
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lawgator1 said:
You didn't build it ALL ON YOUR OWN.

No one does.
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There is no point in making this distinction so why say it in the first place? I don't think that's what he was saying. IMO, either he made a gaffe or he actually means that business owners ride the coat-tails of others.
 
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wonder what kind of results you'd get if you polled, say, the members of 1000 black churches across America, paying particular attention to a congregation's activism, whether D or R, and whether or not it played a part in their views on creationism vs. evolution.

wonder what those results would look like?
 
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MG1968 said:
wonder what kind of results you'd get if you polled, say, the members of 1000 black churches across America, paying particular attention to a congregation's activism, whether D or R, and whether or not it played a part in their views on creationism vs. evolution.

wonder what those results would look like?
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99% for creationism. Fact.
 
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MG1968 said:
wonder what kind of results you'd get if you polled, say, the members of 1000 black churches across America, paying particular attention to a congregation's activism, whether D or R, and whether or not it played a part in their views on creationism vs. evolution.

wonder what those results would look like?
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They'd look like thin air because they'd never poll like that and mess up the narrative.
 
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n_huffhines said:
There is no point in making this distinction so why say it in the first place? I don't think that's what he was saying. IMO, either he made a gaffe or he actually means that business owners ride the coat-tails of others.
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Ingenuity is a government sponsored program in Obama world.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I agree that some really intelligent people reject evolution, but that doesn't make it a reasoned position to take.

What I don't understand is why one damn religious person doesn't stand up and say ,"Maybe evolution is how God created life on earth."
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That's what I believe but I'm not a highly respected person in the religious community.
 
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MG1968 said:
whoosh!!!
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Perhaps I missed part of the conversation.

I thought we were talking about the OP's Pew poll, it doesn't offer up a narrative - just findings. I must have skipped something.
 
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rjd970 said:
Saying creation cannot explain how God began is no more nonsensical then saying evolution cannot explain how life began. Both only deal with what happens after the starting point, not the starting point itself.
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Find a post where I said it was supposed to. I will say it again... You and I are in agreement on this. What else do you want?
 
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Orange_Crush said:
That is a nonsensical statement-- similar to "Creation can't explain a three sided circle."

And edit:

I wasn't bagging on Darwinian evolution. The theory wasn't created to explain the beginning of life.
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Point being we have no convincing evidence on how we got here.
 
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The statistical issue with the poll is not the sample size but rather the non-random way in which the sample is being drawn via telephone. Survey sampling experts refer to this as a "convenience sample". The percentages observed from a convenience sample may or may not be representative of the entire population hence trying to generalize the findings to the political party population are not valid.
 
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SIAP

I believe that more and more "Republicans" are identifying with other parties......TP and Libertarians. This could be contributing to this also.....they may be just saying they are Ind. If given the choice of R, D, or I......my choice would be I.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
SIAP

I believe that more and more "Republicans" are identifying with other parties......TP and Libertarians. This could be contributing to this also.....they may be just saying they are Ind. If given the choice of R, D, or I......my choice would be I.
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You left out "c"
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
SIAP

I believe that more and more "Republicans" are identifying with other parties......TP and Libertarians. This could be contributing to this also.....they may be just saying they are Ind. If given the choice of R, D, or I......my choice would be I.
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If that is true, and the people answering that they are Republican are the less ideological and/or Evangelical than the ones who have left. So the result should be the opposite since the people identifying as Republican would skew to more moderate.

And if that's the case and your theory is true, then the GOP's descent into full blown 19th century mores is even more dramatic and out of touch with fact, science, and reality, than this report suggests.
 
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