4 Responses to “Huckabee Responds to Evolution Question”

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1. Guss Says:

   June 7th, 2007 at 8:54 am
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   Hurray for Huckabee.

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2. Guss Says:

   June 7th, 2007 at 9:00 am
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   If I’m going to vote for someone, I would like to know everything about that person.
   I wouldn’t vote for someone who is a fanatic but on the other hand I wouldn’t vote for he or she if they didn’t have some believe in God.
   It is important to know. That’s just my opinion.

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3. david Says:

   June 7th, 2007 at 9:17 am
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   J-I think the question was important only because of the silliness in the 1st debate when the candidates were asked to raise their hands if they did not believe in evolution. Because of that question, and the way it was asked, the candidates deserved an opportunity to explain their response. Evolution and creationist are not mutually exclusive and I’m please Huckabee was given the opportunity to explain his position.

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4. Andrew Schlewitz Says:

   June 7th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
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   I think, too, that since much of the white evangelical vote goes Republican, and since there’s such a polarized debate on evolution/intelligent design/creationism, that this question is bound to come up repeatedly (see some data below).

   There is a large bloc of potential GOP supporters who would favor a President sympathetic to introducing creationism, or its close cousin, intelligent design, into the public school curriculum. For those GOP candidates counting on the white evangelical vote, they have nothing to lose–Presidents can do very little about public school curriculum since its largely a local matter, so they don’t have to come up with a program or policy; they just have to be sympathetic in public.

   Pew survey reports:

   65% White evangelicals believe that “Humans and other living things have existed in present form only” (that is, no to evolution), compared to 32% of white mainline Christians, 33% all Catholics, and 12% of secular folk. 42% for the whole survey sample.

   go to pewresearch.org to find all sorts of non-partisan survey data on religion and politics.