Poll: 49% Of Republicans Don’t Believe In Evolution

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Forty-nine percent of Republicans don’t believe in evolution, a new Public Policy Polling survey found Tuesday.

The poll by the Democratic-leaning firm found that 49 percent of Republicans said they do not believe in evolution while 37 percent said they do believe in evolution. Another 13 percent said they were not sure.

In a sign that the issue still carries weight with GOP primary voters, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) recently refused to say whether he believed in evolution.

The poll was conducted among 316 Republican primary voters. The margin of error was plus or minus 5.5 percentage points.

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  1. 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.

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

  3. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

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

  4. 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

  5. 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.

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