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Many conservatives do believe in evolution. The question that needs asking is what is a conservative? If you do believe in evolution, does that make you a 'liberal' undeserving of the label 'conservative'? Does conservatisim equate with fundamentalist? No, although there are certainly many conservatives who are. But then, there are also liberals who are fundamentalists. I don't believe that conservatives have a monopoly on fundamentalism. I just think they are more vocal about it. My personal belief is that the theory of evolution has been researched for 140 years. It took over 50 years of research for it to gain general acceptance by the scientific community. And in light of the amazing advances in the field of genetics, it seems rather desparate to now simply declare it wrong in the face of such overwhelming facts. The Scopes trial is over, folks. As such, it is no longer the job of scientists to defend the theory, though we can certainly do a better job of explaining exactly what it is and what it isn't. It is for those who don't believe it to be a viable explanation for the phenomenon it explains (that being why life forms change over time) to come up with an alternative (recognizing the fact that almost no broadly accepted scientific paradigms are ever replaced, but merely elaborated upon) that better explains said phenomenon. And if someone can come up with better explanations, we are certainly more than willing to have a look at them. That's the way the scientific method works, folks. And if anyone can come up with a better method, we are all ears there as well.
Many conservatives do believe in evolution. The question that needs asking is what is a conservative? If you do believe in evolution, does that make you a 'liberal' undeserving of the label 'conservative'? Does conservatisim equate with fundamentalist? No, although there are certainly many conservatives who are. But then, there are also liberals who are fundamentalists. I don't believe that conservatives have a monopoly on fundamentalism. I just think they are more vocal about it. My personal belief is that the theory of evolution has been researched for 140 years. It took over 50 years of research for it to gain general acceptance by the scientific community. And in light of the amazing advances in the field of genetics, it seems rather desparate to now simply declare it wrong in the face of such overwhelming facts. The Scopes trial is over, folks. As such, it is no longer the job of scientists to defend the theory, though we can certainly do a better job of explaining exactly what it is and what it isn't.
It is for those who don't believe it to be a viable explanation for the phenomenon it explains (that being why life forms change over time) to come up with an alternative (recognizing the fact that almost no broadly accepted scientific paradigms are ever replaced, but merely elaborated upon) that better explains said phenomenon. And if someone can come up with better explanations, we are certainly more than willing to have a look at them. That's the way the scientific method works, folks. And if anyone can come up with a better method, we are all ears there as well.
