Weekly Poll: Will Intelligent Design Harm Conservatism?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’} Anti-science activities are playing an increasing role in American conservatism. The biggest example is the advocacy of Intelligent Design: a direct attack on a basic scientific theory because religious ideology demands it. This political and religious opposition to evolutionary theory (there is no scientific opposition to it) is made up exclusively of conservatives. The question is, will the anti-science attitudes of conservatives come to hurt them later? Conservatives have often prided themselves on adhering to a very practical and realistic political philosophy, but a practical political philosophy is one that deals with reality as it is rather than as we wish it would be. Conservatives like David Frum — who says he accepts evolution but opposes teaching it in school because it “offends” some — do exactly the opposite: they favor teaching
