re: #2 Killgore Trout

About that Pew poll on Republicans and evolution….
Have Republicans changed views on evolution? Or have creationists changed party? Pew’s (half-released) numbers don’t add up

…it’s lame because this sort of deliberate selectivity (make no mistake, it was deliberate: Pew made the decision to include the partisan breakdown for only half of the bifurcated evolution-belief item) subsidizes the predictable “ha ha ha!” response on the part of the culturally partisan commentators who will see the survey as a chance to stigmatize Republicans as being distinctively “anti-science.”

Uh - Republicans ARE distinctively anti-science, no scare quotes. I don’t see how that’s even debatable.