{"id":2834,"date":"2009-09-29T22:18:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T06:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2009-09-30T19:11:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T03:11:50","slug":"attitudes-of-republicans-conservatives-by-demographic-to-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/attitudes-of-republicans-conservatives-by-demographic-to-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Attitudes of Republicans &#038; Conservatives by demographic to evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update:<\/b> Welcome <i>Hot Air<\/i> readers! This post reports data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/sda.berkeley.edu\/cgi-bin\/hsda?harcsda+gss08\">The General Social Survey<\/a>, it is *not* a post to debate the presumed merits of the Creationist controversy! I used the EVOLVED variable, which asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier  species of animals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>TRUE or FALSE. That was all.<\/p>\n<p>Rather self-explanatory. I simply used the EVOLVED variable, which records a question asked in 2006 &#038; 2008. Nothing too surprising, but Creationist Republican politicians have mass support, so it may be that in coming years that that position will become the Republican elite norm as the pro-life position has become. The only caution, and hope, is that historically Creationists are generally beaten back by anti-Creationist elite Republicans and conservatives when they manage to force their ideas into the classroom on the local level.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/evolutionconserv.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/evolutionconserv.png\" alt=\"evolutionconserv\" title=\"evolutionconserv\" width=\"558\" height=\"602\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/evolutionconserv.png 558w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/evolutionconserv-278x300.png 278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/evolutionrepub.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/evolutionrepub.png\" alt=\"evolutionrepub\" title=\"evolutionrepub\" width=\"554\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/evolutionrepub.png 554w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/evolutionrepub-277x300.png 277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Welcome Hot Air readers! This post reports data from the The General Social Survey, it is *not* a post to debate the presumed merits of the Creationist controversy! I used the EVOLVED variable, which asked: Human beings, as we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/attitudes-of-republicans-conservatives-by-demographic-to-evolution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[121,1129,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2842,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}