Discussion: Poll: 49% Of GOPers Don't Believe In Evolution

system1 · February 24, 2015, 10:57pm

Discussion for article #233635

kendyzdad · February 24, 2015, 11:17pm

This just makes me want to cry.

It’s like not believing in gravity, but that God’s invisible hand pushes down on to keep us from flying off into space.

roberta · February 24, 2015, 11:18pm

If you question science based on your politics or your religion, you should question the latter.

mantan · February 24, 2015, 11:22pm

Do you blame them? I mean they have mirrors, don’t they?

59gibson · February 24, 2015, 11:23pm

A sense of despair
A vast and barren intellectual cat box
These people need deep and immediate help with reality
again, a sense of despair

avattoir · February 24, 2015, 11:28pm

Oop - shoulda considered asking 'em about the inverse square law.

Also: age of the universe, that’d be sure to come in with some face-palming numbers.

It COULD all be part of La Big Guy’s gene pool plan: eRpublicans stuck in the kiddies’ wading end, the better to perpetuate the species.

lestatdelc · February 24, 2015, 11:47pm

So, 49% of Republicans don’t believe in directly observable fact.

Color me shocked.

tomconoley · February 24, 2015, 11:50pm

Once again … that’s only about 10-12% of all Americans, or about the same number with an IQ rating of defective or below.

pcbill · February 24, 2015, 11:52pm

I would refer to the 49% as neanderthals, but I think the irony would be lost on them.

jaybeeraybee · February 25, 2015, 12:10am

Still with the canard, “if I believe something hard enough, it will come true!” Thankfully, the universe doesn’t give a rats ass what the hairless monkeys believe or don’t.

I’ll just hope they share the same fate.

brooklyndweller · February 25, 2015, 12:17am

The poll was conducted among 316 Republican primary voters.

As far as I’m concerned, this part is key. THIS is the reason the national GOP is going nowhere. The GOP base that always votes in their primary is so far down the rabbit hole, they wouldn’t be able to tell reality from a hole in the wall. The rest of the country just looks on in amazement. And disgust.

ottnott · February 25, 2015, 12:19am

May the party shrink until 100% of those left don’t believe in evolution.

tao · February 25, 2015, 1:13am

I think we can include the 13% who weren’t sure with the 49% who don’t. The 13% have learned to punt on the hard questions. Anyway, excuse me for trying to make sense of nonsense.

richardnixonhuberthumphrey · February 25, 2015, 1:24am

I expect this from Republicans. I despair over the fact that the numbers almost as bad for Democrats.

dnl · February 25, 2015, 1:31am

Where in the New Testament does it say Jesus wants Xians to be stupid??

The problem with today’s Xians is that they have no faith in their doG.

They don’t think doG can handle the judging part of his job
so they step into the breach…

stevennc · February 25, 2015, 2:07am

The party’s very first president was Abraham Lincoln. Their last one was George W. Bush.

Is it any wonder they don’t believe in evolution?

richardnixonhuberthumphrey · February 25, 2015, 2:21am

ARE WE NOT MEN?

halfbaked · February 25, 2015, 2:26am

I don’t “believe” in evolution either. Just like I don’t believe in the sun or the moon. It just is.

chammy · February 25, 2015, 3:36am

I really find this difficult to believe. This poll should read 49% of ignorant republicsns believe in evolution. I Do not like Gopers, but I know a lot of them and while they claim to believe in God (mostly because they don’t want to admit they don’t believe in God) also believe in evolution.

shmoople · February 25, 2015, 3:47am

Call me a hopeless optimist, but that 49% figure is a lot lower than I would’ve expected.