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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: neolib who wrote (28233)9/8/2006 2:38:16 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 541223
 
At least a simple majority (50%+) of political conservatives in the USA believe in creationism and think Darwin is incorrect.

I'm not sure that's an accurate statement. I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that you won't find a simple majority, or even a very large minority of conservatives actively campaigning for ID. More on the original topic the percentage of libertarian conservatives supporting ID, or saying that evolution is not the major factor in the development of the diversity of species is clearly not a majority, and likely only a small minority.

Note - I was taking "and think Darwin is incorrect", to mean "think that evolution is not the main cause of diversity of specifies". If you take your phrase more literally, then a majority of informed conservatives and liberals think that Darwin was incorrect. We have learned more since his time and not all of his statements and opinions regarding evolution are completely right. But its clear that isn't what you meant.

So how should I view your comment above? I've now clarified what "most" is for me. What is "very wrong" for you. Did you only object because you thought I was saying 95%+ and you agree with me at 50%+, or do you think the number should be more like 25% or less?

Talking about libertarian conservatives, I would say under 25% perhaps well under.

AEI is not a big proponent of ID, or generally a religious right organization. I'm not saying it never says anything in support of ID. Certainly some of its members and even prominent members do support ID (or talk about having "balance" between ID and evolution, which might reasonably be considered almost the same thing) but ID really isn't their cause.

To provide some context, if AEI allowed some of its members to push the historical revisionism that the Holocaust was not correct, what would you expect the rest of the Institute to do?

Your argument only shows that AEI doesn't consider support for ID to be the moral or logical equivalent of Holocaust denial. It doesn't show that such support is the official position of AEI, or the position of most of its members or leaders.
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