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Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is formerly a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas, in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not battling creationists or modeling species ranges, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.
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Category: Culture Wars
Posted on: May 3, 2007 11:15 PM, by Josh Rosenau
Less than a third of Republican candidates for President reject evolution. That's how far out of the mainstream those three whackos are.
Only McCain and Giuliani said they'd back stem cell research, despite growing national majorities in favor of it.
I didn't watch it, so I don't know anything but what I read about it on the internets.
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Brownback was cooky as usual.
There was an interesting question about whether a business owner should be able to hire and fire people for any reason (in this case sexual preference). Only one guy was given 30 seconds to answer. I wish they would have asked questions like this instead of harping on abortion and values.
Posted by: Jim | May 4, 2007 10:50 AM
On the evolution question, McCain seemed to have buyer's remorse upon answering, and added a cliched "hand of God" statement to appease the base. I understand that Brownback is a Catholic convert, but um, I thought creationism went out of style for the Vatican a while ago.
Posted by: Matt | May 4, 2007 11:06 AM
Once upon a time, even Brownback was a moderate idiot (ie. Republican). He was iffy on abortion, pro-science, and all that happy stuff. But then, he realized the xtian zealots were a powerful base, and he sold himself to them.
I first met the guy about fifteen years ago -- his daughter was about my age -- and he was not the fundamentalist psychopath he is now. I doubt he really is now, either, but I can certainly imagine he's playing it for the electoral position.
Posted by: jv | May 5, 2007 2:15 AM