Why do republicans hate science but love magic? Are they simply childish? Or just dumb?

Answer 1

was there a poll ?....do you have scientific proof of this?.lol.. I love science and magic is amusing.... hmmmm perhaps I'm independent.......

Answer 2

Dumb like a fox. I seriously don't believe that most of the well educated leaders of the republican party (except maybe for GWB but he's stupid) really believe the world is 6000 years old and all the other Intelligent Designer stuff. I believe they are pretending to believe it to obtain the votes of certain classes of people who feel disenfranchised in this society. They are using these "social issues" to distract from the real problems this class has which are economic (minimum wage) and the war.
If you remember that Judge in Alabama who stuck a big old tablet with the 10 commandments on it? He is exactly the kind of person that I mean. He is a native of that place, he just has more education and more advantages than some people. He could have used them to talk to people in a language they would understand about the difference between the free exercise clause and the establishment clause.
But no. He's got to inflame emotions and start a fuss and when the farmers and grandmothers are staging a sit in Judge Moore skips out the back door of the court house.
I could spit.

Answer 3

How about, Why do Liberals ask such unintelligent, generalizing questions that stereotype others with negative labels? Isn't that failing to be politically correct? Oh, no, I have been oppressed...my self-image is irreparably damaged!

Wait - I can't say that - I'm not a liberal whiner.

I am a Republican, and I love science! My sister is a scientist (a chemist) and she is doing fantastic work!

The only magic I like is the kind where I watch a magician on stage doing some neat tricks. And I don't know why anyone would criticize me for that.

Answer 4

What is the source of your information? Who says Republicans hate science and/or love magic? Even if your statement is true (which is doubtful) why would you conclude there could only be two reasons for the 'fact', IE, childish or dumb?

Answer 5

If you are referring to evolution v. creation, as your cryptic question speculates, then you are calling those with religious beliefs "childish" or "dumb". Even science acknowledges Divine intervention as anomalies or uninterpretable results in evolution. Although the story of Creation is a great work of fiction, it offers the same evidence that Evolution studies can provide - nothing concrete. Democrats and Republicans share this quandary, it's not a GOP issue alone.

Answer 6

Why do liberals ask such inane questions that are simply meant as a veiled insult.

Try to think for yourself in the future.... people don't hate science for the love of magic.... they are mutually exclusive words... and who practices magic anymore????

Maybe you and the Chaldeans should start hanging out together. They were considered scientist too in their day. Or maybe the Gnostics?? How about bringing back the barber/dentist..... geeze, you're dim.

Republicans don't hate science, idiot..... grow up.

Answer 7

I'm assuming that you are referring to the conflict between the religious right wing of the Republican Party and stem cell research. People have a lot of trouble being both a Christian and believing in science because to believe in both you have to compromise both. Some people don't have room for both sets of beliefs and can't get past the idea that they conflict in some areas. For me those compromises make sense - like creation biblically happened in 7 days but who says that God's 7 days didn't look like millions of years to us thus fitting in with evolution? It's more about being closed or disrespectful to new ideas than it is about being childish. No matter who does that, Republican or Demoract, it is a very sad thing when we can't see anything but our own beliefs.

Answer 8

Why do you relate all republicans to that idiot Bush? Are you simply childish? Or just dumb?

Hint: Idiot boy has a 30% approval rating. The Republican party has a much larger percentage of registered voters.

Answer 9

There's an old quotation I really like:

"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta' want it bad, cause' it's going to put up a fight. It's going to say, "You want Free Speech? Then let me see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, a man who is standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land is the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that. Defend that. Celebrate that in your classrooms. Then I will stand up and sing about the land of the free.""

There are people who WANT high cholesterol. They want to eat bacon, and burgers, and buckets of cheese. And why? Because they suddenly feel the need to.

So Republicans have a right to their own opinion, and to their own beliefs, but the real question is: How does democracy survive that way?

"[A] noble an ambitious assumption of the government of the United States is that it can satisfy the needs of a diverse population."

Answer 10

I believe that republicans clearly envision destroying all of mankind. As a part of their insidious plot, they are trying to make us all love magic and hate science. That way they will eventually rule the world!

Or perhaps this was just a silly question.

Answer 11

Actually it is NOT like asking if Democrats hate America, because Republicans take active measures to suppress reality (science) in favor of superstition (religion). Who has tried to suppress the teaching of the theory of evolution (science) in favor of superstition (creationism)? Who has suppressed scientifically based sex education in favor of superstitious nonsense about Abstinence Only? Nobody can force individual people or whole countries to accept reality and act in accordance with it, but nobody can prevent the consequences if you don't!