{"id":3353,"date":"2007-05-07T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T07:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/07\/3-of-10-republican-presidential-candidates-dont-believe-in-evolution\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T00:01:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T07:21:06","slug":"3-of-10-republican-presidential-candidates-dont-believe-in-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3353","title":{"rendered":"3 of 10 Republican Presidential Candidates Don&#039;t Believe In Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10700.html\">The three denialists<\/a> were Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee, and Tom Tancredo. McCain hesitated before admitting that he believes in evolution. (Curtsy, again, to <a href=\"http:\/\/ezraklein.typepad.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/the_republican_.html\">Ezra<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Denialism has become the primary intellectual sin among conservatives. Denial of evolution, denial of global warming, denial of utter disaster in Iraq, and the Terri Schiavo embarrassment are, in a way, just four different cases of the same right-wing ineptitude. Conservatives have cultivated a denial of reality so profound that it makes it impossible for them to even acknowledge reality, let alone govern responsibly.<\/p>\n<p>And yeah, not all Republicans are denialists on every issue. But <em>enough <\/em>Republicans are denialists so that denialism, and antagonism towards science, is now an intrinsic part of the Republican approach to policy. They simply can&#8217;t keep their coalition together and acknowledge reality at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a big fan of the Democrats. But at least they&#8217;re only horribly wrong <em>part <\/em>of the time. It&#8217;s at least conceivable that a Democrat will take an intelligent, responsible position on climate change; Republicans can&#8217;t do that. Reality is no longer politically viable for them.<\/p>\n<p>Related news, from <em>The Onion<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/39512\">Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New &#8216;Intelligent Falling&#8217; Theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three denialists were Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee, and Tom Tancredo. McCain hesitated before admitting that he believes in evolution. (Curtsy, again, to Ezra). Denialism has become the primary intellectual sin among conservatives. Denial of evolution, denial of global warming, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3353\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}