Sunday, February 28, 2010

What Republicans Believe

Source: Gallup Poll

It is hard to reconcile the belief that the universe was created 10,000 years ago with the fossil record on earth, much less with a view of the universe as consisting of 100 to 1000 billion galaxies, each with 100 to 1000 billion stars some so far from earth that light takes billions of years to span the distance. I rather like the doctrine which I understand to hold that if scientific evidence conflicts with religious dogma, one must misunderstand one of the other. Where for example is it written that God created the universe 10,000 years ago?

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