re: #212 Blind Frog Belly White

What most people don’t get - especially people who try to use evolution as an excuse to be a dick - is that evolution works at the level of the population.

I would note one thing: it would appear that ten years ago, Movement Conservatism (at least as reflected by that thread) was deeply divided on the position of evolution by natural selection versus (or including) religious views.

It would appear to me the anti-evolution folk have now nearly-completely driven the supporters of the theory out of the Republican camp. (Atheists as well, like David Silverman, but atheism is not evolution despite the continued attempts of creationists to claim that is so.)

That thread is fascinating to me (as I am still continuing through the comments) on the minds of the average voter on the right (as reflected at Little Green Footballs at the time). It would appear that there was a lot of diversity here on the opinion of religion/evolution at the time.

The arguments the creationism/ID proponents bring up in that thread are the same arguments I’ve heard all my life, so those aren’t new. But that kind of conversation on the political right as reflected in that comment thread seems unimaginable to me now. (Now it would be “you believe in the religions of evolution, global warming by human intervention, and atheism? You heretic!! The brainwashed liebruls are through that door on the left. Don’t let it hit you.)