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Richard Dawkins | Unscientific Republicans

Sun, 08/28/2011 - 19:07 — Dave Culver
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What is unusual about today's Republican Party is this: ignorance and lack of education are positive qualifications, bordering on obligatory.

Richard Dawkins, Minneapolis Star Tribune | MN

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Texas Gov. and GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, at a campaign event this week, told a boy that evolution is "just a theory" with "gaps," and that in Texas they teach "both creationism and evolution."

Perry later added "God is how we got here."

According to a 2009 Gallup study, only 38 percent of Americans say they believe in evolution. These questions arise: If a majority of Americans are skeptical or unsure about evolution, should schools teach it as a mere "theory"? Why is evolution so threatening to religion?

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