What's scarier... that an atheist will never get elected President....?

Question

or that in the 21st century, 3 Republican presidential candidates proudly admit they don't believe in evolution?

"Three candidates raised their hands and said they didn't believe in evolution in one Republican debate -- unthinkable in a developed Western nation other than the United States. Conservative Christians wield considerable influence within the party."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/05/debate.evolution/index.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070506-science-may-be-the-new-political-litmus-test-for-rationality.html

Answer 1

I find it incredible. If aliens intercept our radiowaves they will be crying with laughter when they see we elect people who think that the Earth is 6000 years old to look after our nuclear weapons.

Answer 2

i'm hoping you're no longer in college yet so there remains time so which you would be certain the relationship between faith and politics. first of all; i'm with the aid of no means large-religious, I attend no church in many cases yet grew up going and have my own very own faith and ideology. even with the undeniable fact that, you should understand that separation of church and state has no longer something to do with no longer recognizing religious perception interior our government. this is to assert, our shape, our statement of independence and our academic establishments have been based in Judeo-Christian values. once you hear applicants communicate approximately social themes, words like justice, fairness, worrying - those are all recent in Christian ideals. Values, ethics, and canons of action are all based in faith. you will possibly no longer want to have confidence that or you may reject the assumption even with the undeniable fact that that's a assertion of actuality. look at what number cases you notice the awareness God in government dogma. the think approximately the U. S., with separation of church and state is that the government acknowledges no particular faith. yet do no longer newborn your self, the creation of a central authority is a mirrored photograph of the international locations human beings and ours is in keeping with Christian values. no remember what happens now or going forward that's what it grew to become into all started with. I proportion your place of no longer worrying with a applicants particular faith, i'm, even with the undeniable fact that, in contact approximately their ethics and values that are predicated on faith in one way or yet another, they're inseparable. i'm particular it irks organic secularists or athiests that those issues are actual yet that would not replace them. One can not 'thoroughly separate' faith from US politics the two are definitionally certain.

Answer 3

It looks like a couple of them are backpedaling towards theistic evolution.

what gets me is the bit:

And Huckabee made it clear that he did not appreciate the question, either, calling it unfair.

"It's interesting that that question would even be asked of somebody running for president," Huckabee said. "I'm not planning on writing the curriculum for an eighth-grade science book. I'm asking for the opportunity to be president of the United States."


Seeing as he has scientific advisers, this is a key question. Will he take their advice, or rely on his bible? With a lot of science based issues coming up it is a key question.

Answer 4

At least one of those three--Brownback--is Catholic, so I have to wonder why he is pandering to the fundamentalists.


Perhaps he hurt his chances for remaining a senator by saying what he said. The educated population in Kansas hates the creationist minority for periodically embarassing everyone by stealthily taking over the Board of Education.

Edit: Apparently, Brownback was going to step down next election cycle anyway.

Answer 5

Hmm, given the choice, I'd reluctantly vote for some one who dose not believe in evolution, before I vote for some one who does not believe in capitalism. In fact that was the unpleasant choice I had to make in '04.

Answer 6

Wow, that is very scary. Just think that those three never have been in a museum before and they want to run a country.

Haven't they ever seen the bones of a neanderthal or of a homo sapien? That is just willfull ignorance. It is evident that Kirk Cameron's home schooling never taught biology. Otherwise he would have known that a crocodile's dna and a ducks dna are so vastly different that they are mutually incompatible to create a crocoduck.

Answer 7

It's horrifying. The Discovery Institute is committing crimes against humanity.

CD

Answer 8

I'd sooner vote for the guy that doesn't believe in either of them.

Answer 9

Some people will say anything to get votes

Answer 10

And people ask me on here every day....

Why do you care about religion? Why can't you just leave the Christians alone?