NO MATTER WHO WINS AS PRES, SCIENCE LOSES

“Fifty-two per cent of Republican voters reject the theory of evolution, saying mankind was created in present form within the last 10,000 years; just 31 per cent think man-made climate change is happening. In Congress, Republicans fought stem cell research and the HPV vaccine. Sarah Palin, ignoramus-in-chief, mocked “fruit-fly research” as a “pet project [with] little or nothing to do with the public good,” rejecting at a stroke most advances in genetics since Gregor Mendel.”

Sadly, as Jim Swanson points out: 40% of those who identify as democrats reject evolution. Maybe we should strip out science classes in our schools and replace them with bible classes.

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