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Robert Knight, who has been encouraging Republicans to run on social issues such as hostility to abortion rights and opposition to LGBT equality, now thinks the GOP should campaign on denying the existence of evolution.

Citing a Pew poll which shows that belief in evolution has plummeted in the GOP and is now shared by only a minority of Republicans, Knight told the American Family Association’s One News Now that “Republicans have a great opportunity” to expose the “lies that liberals have told over the years” and begin “questioning evolution more than ever.”

He also warns that a belief in evolution “leads to terrible things like socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism and the more extreme forms of liberalism in this country.”


Knight should take heart that Republicans have been working to undercut the teaching of evolution for decades, and we here at Right Wing Watch hope the GOP embraces this foolproof political strategy. "Evolution is at the core of a left-wing, secular, humanist worldview that has been breathing down everybody's necks in America for years the best we can do is empower government to make our decisions for us," he offers. "That leads to terrible things like socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism and the more extreme forms of liberalism in this country."

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/knight-gop-can-win-if-it-runs-against-evolution
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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2014, 02:29:18 PM »
The 1910 platform of flat earth, slaves and women with no voices or rights really worked well for them the last two cycles huh?

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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2014, 03:14:37 PM »
There was a guy who published a stupid article in Rolling Stone that said we ought to abolish banks and private property...they're both idiots. I'm not sure I believe in Evolution in that the science has holes in it...however its not because the earth is 4k years old and people and dinosaurs walked around together. The theory is flawed. It should not be taught like its the only opinion...however little kids should'nt be just taught that god did everything either.
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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2014, 03:49:54 PM »
There was a guy who published a stupid article in Rolling Stone that said we ought to abolish banks and private property...they're both idiots. I'm not sure I believe in Evolution in that the science has holes in it...however its not because the earth is 4k years old and people and dinosaurs walked around together. The theory is flawed. It should not be taught like its the only opinion...however little kids should'nt be just taught that god did everything either.

What do you believe?

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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2014, 03:54:42 PM »
The 1910 platform of flat earth, slaves and women with no voices or rights really worked well for them the last two cycles huh?

wait who can I vote for for this?

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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2014, 04:13:19 PM »
What do you believe?

I think God set it all off and everything after that can be explained by science...but I don't dwell on god or what he does a whole hell of alot. I suspect he's not especially worried about me or what I think. I'm pretty secular...I prefer to hope there's a higher power.
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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2014, 04:17:28 PM »
I think God set it all off and everything after that can be explained by science...but I don't dwell on god or what he does a whole hell of alot. I suspect he's not especially worried about me or what I think. I'm pretty secular...I prefer to hope there's a higher power.


Its a belief shared by many Scientists. That the Big Bang needed a higher power.

So then you do believe in evolution?

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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2014, 04:25:52 PM »
I think there are holes in the theory...jumps that aren't easily explained. I'm not saying I believe those holes are filled by god. I find that thinking god directs things here on earth as pretty self centered. He set everything off and got on to the next thing. I don't give it much thought other then when people who differ on opinions aren't allowed to express them by zealots.
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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2014, 04:27:42 PM »
Evolution should absolutely be taught, regardless if there are things we still don't know or understand.

Hell, even in Organic Chemistry, we can only prove the slow part of the reaction, whereas the fast part is generally theory.  It's still good science.

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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2014, 04:28:39 PM »
I think there are holes in the theory...jumps that aren't easily explained. I'm not saying I believe those holes are filled by god. I find that thinking god directs things here on earth as pretty self centered. He set everything off and got on to the next thing. I don't give it much thought other then when people who differ on opinions aren't allowed to express them by zealots.

So you believe in evolution where god interferes once in a while?

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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2014, 04:52:23 PM »
Anybody who created the universe isn't worried about us...I could be wrong. I suspect he may be a Pats fan.....
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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2014, 05:31:53 PM »
So you believe in evolution where god interferes once in a while?

He doesn't interfere.  He just "tests" us. 

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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2014, 05:39:58 PM »
Anybody who created the universe isn't worried about us...I could be wrong. I suspect he may be a Pats fan.....
lol brady rule as proof?

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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2014, 07:22:25 PM »
No...if we're throwing out inflammatory statements about TFB then how about that assbag Bill Polian whining to the rules committee in 2003 after Ty Law ass raped the entire Dolts WR corp...thus creating the ridiculous PI and holding calls that have changed football forever. Watch what you say about my Tommy...

This is what I believe....
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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2014, 07:36:00 PM »
hahah

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Re: Right-winger Robert Knight urges GOP to run against evolution in 2014
« Reply #16 on: January 07, 2014, 11:46:08 AM »
Macroevolution is retarded, but it shouldn't be a federal political issue.  What the heck does the president have to do with what local schools teach in the classroom?