The Darwin Primary
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Forget Paris Hilton or Willie Horton, the biggest celebrity on the Presidential hustings this year is Charles Darwin. If Gallup is right, the GOP will continue its Darwin bashing.
The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. This suggests that when three Republican presidential candidates at a May debate stated they did not believe in evolution, they were generally in sync with the bulk of the rank-and-file Republicans whose nomination they are seeking to obtain.
Independents and Democrats are more likely than Republicans to believe in the theory of evolution. But even among non-Republicans there appears to be a significant minority who doubt that evolution adequately explains where humans came from.
Here's the oddly phrased question.
Now thinking about how human beings came to exist on Earth, do you, personally, believe in evolution, or not?
| Yes, believe | No, do | No | |
| 2007 May 21-24 | 49 | 48 | 2 |
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Yes, I believe in evolution
The question is oddly phrased in another way - at least from a scientist's point of view. The theory of evolution is as well established a part of modern science as gravity, the atomic theory of matter, or the germ theory of disease. Even President Bush's science advisor has said that it is a "cornerstone of modern biology." So asking if one "believes" in evolution makes about as much sense as asking if one believes in gravity or, say, electro-magnetism.