"Is there anyone on the stage who does NOT believe in evolution?"

Parent Cafe
1

<p>I figured that we needed a thread on tonight’s Republican debate.</p>

<p>BTW, three Republican candidates raised their hands on that question.</p>

<p>Nine of them joined John McCain in a chorus of Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.</p>

2

<p>I watched it, all of it, and thought there was a clear winner:</p>

<p>Fred Thompson.</p>

3

<p>I think that John McCain following Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell could be best described as a “win-win”.</p>

4

<p>And for those of you who think there is no diversity in the Republican field, tonight’s debate certainly dispelled that notion.</p>

<p>Of the ten old white guys in gray business suits, there was considerable diversity: five red ties, three blue ties, a gold tie, and a silver striped tie. I think that’s a party that is clearly representative of America’s diversity in neckware.</p>

5

<p>Biggest disappointment of the night:</p>

<p>After asking for a show of hands on evolution, the moderator didn’t ask if there were any flat-earthers.</p>

6

<p>“BTW, three Republican candidates raised their hands on that question.”</p>

<p>You’re kidding! Now that’s scary!</p>

7

<p>I thought it was equally scary to hear that three of the Democratic candidates owned guns.</p>

<p>Anti-evolution gun wielders…we may get a White House replacement who is no better than the one currently keeping the chair warm.</p>

8

<p>So who were the 3 who don’t believe in evolution…that’s info I think I need to file in my “need to know” file and I’m too lazy to try to find that info…So, please, do tell!</p>

<p>D turned 18 a week ago, and registered to vote 2 days later. She watched the whole thing, although H and she spent a lot of time talking back to the TV. (H walked out of the room muttering shortly after).</p>

9

<p>I was at the Senior Awards Night. </p>

<p>Being from TN, we don’t get unbiased info about Fred Thompson. Really – how did he do?</p>

10

<p>AstroPhysicsMom:

</p>

<p>And MaryTN, Mini was joking. Fred Thompson did great - he wasn’t on that stage. He’s not (yet) a declared candidate.</p>

11

<p>Thanks, optimizerdad. Duly noted <strong>cough<em>idiots</em>cough</strong>.</p>

12

<p>I’m with you on that, astrophysicsmom.</p>

13

<p>oops. Thanks optimizerdad.</p>

14

<p>I have this <em>vivid</em> mental image of the three Republican anti-evolution candidates, arms linked and lock-stepped, singing “Don’t believe in e-vo-lution…”, to the tune of Pink Floyd’s ‘Another brick in the wall’ …</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.tnellen.com/ted/brick.html[/url]”>http://www.tnellen.com/ted/brick.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

15

<p>Interesteddad----lol—‘flat-earthers’-- LOL!</p>

16

<p>“Don’t believe in e-vo-lution…”, to the tune of Pink Floyd’s ‘Another brick in the wall’ …"</p>

<p>they can follow it with a round of “Every sperm is sacred…”</p>

17

<p>One aspect of the debate that was brought to the forefront was what absolute wimps that the Democrats are. Here the Republicans accept a debate aired on a hostile network, moderated by a former Democratic operative and hosted by the left’s equivalent of a Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity. In contrast the Dems wimp out of a debate on Fox. Yet they are the one’s who always accuse Bush of only appearing in friendly forums.</p>

18

<p>Actually, I thought that the questions last night were far less hostile than those from Brian Williams: “So, Sen. Edwards, many Republican pundits have described you as an axe-murder. Can you reassure the voters that you stopped murdering with an axe?”</p>

<p>And frankly, does it really matter what network the debate is on when a sitting U.S. Senator admits on national TV that he doesn’t believe in evolution? Seriously. Of course, I recall the President hedging his bets on that one, too.</p>

19

<p>Interesting that no one asked this question to the democrats. </p>

<p>But, for those who are interested:</p>

<p><a href=“http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/hodge_podge/000550party_id_and_id.html[/url]”>http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/hodge_podge/000550party_id_and_id.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>“Of the 53% of Democrats who believe that humans evolved over time, fully 20% believe that evolution was “guided by a supreme being.” For Republicans the numbers are 40% and 18% respectively. In other words, given the survey’s margin of error, the exact same percentage of Democrats as Republicans believe in “Intelligent Design” (ID). (Republicans do outnumber Democratic Creationists, 51% to 38%.)”</p>

<p>“There are some other interesting findings in the data, such as similar support across party lines for “teaching creationism instead of evolution” (R = 43%, D = 37%) and “teaching creationism along with evolution” (R = 67%, D = 61%).”</p>

<p>This is scary stuff - regardless of your political beliefs!</p>

20

<p>I agree, FF, however as a member of the party base, I would like to have seen the debate moderated by someone whose questions were not all premised upon stereotypes and cliches. You know, to ask the questions we would like to have answered when choosing what candidate to put forward. I would also like the candidates of my party to be able to have the backbone to have chosen a more appropriate media outlet for the debate. Chris Matthews was just absolutely awful, distracting, offensive and obnoxious. One can not seriously say that Matthews and Olbermann aren’t partisan hacks. I guess I just think the process should be treated more seriously than that. Personally, I think that Richardson did well on the democratic (must make sure not to leave out those last two letters or be called unintelligent and classless) side and Romney did well on our side. I wasn’t particularly pleased with either Giuliani or McCain.</p>