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by autonoms 4968 days ago
This is hilarious. This is one of those "in the right place at the right time" things. Vandalism like that usually only is up for a few minutes, apparently the same few minutes when DuckDuckGo was crawling that page. Amazing.
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jacoblyles 4968 days ago
How is this funny? As someone who occasionally votes Republican, I'm tired of being told by my peers that I must be stupid and evil for doing so. For the record, I've never met a Republican that doesn't believe in gravity.
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cnorgate 4968 days ago
Unfortunately 'Republican' has become synonymous with the extreme-religious-right - itself a likely small subset of all Republicans. It's this 'subset' who actively promote certain world views - a popular one being that evolution is only a 'theory' or a hoax. It's no wonder those views attract the occasional joke or ridicule... it's low hanging fruit. Really easy, and really funny.

I'm not a US citizen, so can't vote, but if I could I would very seriously consider voting republican, but for their extreme views on 'social' issues. I suspect I'm like a lot of other people in the US - fiscally conservative, socially liberal. Sadly for the Republican party, people like me are really only left with a choice of voting Democrat when faced with the prospect of our schools teaching our children that the Universe was LITERALLY created in 7 days.

Just my $0.02

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aroberge 4968 days ago
I believe that you are missing the point: most Republicans do not believe in evolution because, as they say rather cluelessly "it is just a theory". Well, it turns out that gravity also is "just a theory".
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jacoblyles 4968 days ago
All the people who vote Republican in my social network believe in evolution. I allow that I have seen news reports of people who tend Republican in other areas of the country who do not. Have you ever met a Republican creationist?

I would be interested to see polls on evolution belief of poor inner-city residents or unionized blue collar laborers who support Democrats. I expect the results would not be flattering.

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2muchcoffeeman 4968 days ago
Here's something: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2012/05/03/republicans...

You're correct, it's not flattering.

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dasil003 4968 days ago
That was my first thought, but then my second thought was Easter Egg.
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