[MaineRepublic]

This religious zealotry is the only thing I don't like about the Conservative movement.

There are quite a few of us intellectual conservatives who reject the litmus test of accepting Creationism and rejecting evolution.

[tjwmason]

This religious zealotry is the only thing I don't like about the Conservative movement.

Quite so, it is remarkable that even among conservatives there are those who embrace the humanist religion with the fullest zeal of a convert.

There are quite a few of us intellectual conservatives who reject the litmus test of accepting Creationism and rejecting evolution.

On the question of evolution pace Darwin, I am an open-minded sceptic; the theory has holes in it through which one could fly an entire fleet of 747s (e.g., macro~ vs, micro-evolution). However, the reaction of the 'scientific community' to the slightest disagreement with this theory is astonishing. It is a theory, let it stand as such, let it be presented as such, let the evidence speak. Just because scientists agree on something does not make it right (they once thought that the world was flat afterall).