I assume they send their kids to the finest schools in this country, which all teach science. If they're so godamned adamant about denial of evolution, why don't they all send their kids to a fundie college?

Yeah, I know the answer to that, too...

and their circle is getting smaller and smaller. They're in a siege mentality against modernity.

Their movement thought they could adapt by embracing "change" in the form of technology-without-science, profligate consumerism (materialism without limits) and their furious brand of tough love (militarism with smile). They can't accept that other people are educating their children "to go to hell".

if they want to have a chance of winning. Conservative icon Barry Goldwater warned about the preachers taking over the GOP 40 yrs ago. He was right.

Choose instead to grasp the seemingly simple theocratic and denialist philosophies neatly packaged and presented with flashy graphics to them on Fux Noise. It is why I support a minimum I.Q. to vote. Now, I'll likely get lambasted about that even here so I'll add this qualifier:
Yes, there are still going to be the Ben Carsons, intelligent individuals who will still accept fantastic distortions, and certainly those who would still vote for who supports their greed.
Yet I believe they would be so vastly outnumbered by those who can rise above the folly that Republicans would win very, very few seats most anywhere.

It is a wonderful interview.

Why do I so often cringe when he speaks off of biology?

I generally like Richard Dawkins. I have read many of his books, all generally well written. The Ancestor's Tale is an incredible story of evolutionary biology in such detail that it blows ones mind. The God Delusion, likewise, is a great read on religion and belief.

However, when he strays from these subjects why does he so often piss people off? I suspect it is because that he is mistaken, horribly mistaken.

R&K this because Dawkins is right on target here.

to speak out about religious fundamentalism, given that they can and do create so many problems for modern society. Especially fundy Islam. Fundy Xtianity might even be worse given they are looking forward to the Rapture and dooming the world to climate change and war.

But I do not want to listen to Dawkins on feminism or LBGT rights, or even politics.

Dawkins: "We've got to stop calling it a theory, because the word "theory" is misunderstood-it's taken to mean "hypothesis". Evolution is a fact, it's as simple as that."



http://www.theonion.com/article/evolutionists-flock-to-darwin-shaped-wall-stain-2523