Hi Deftil,
Could it not be argued that creationism is more honest then ID?
Literal creationism strikes me as more honest. It was originally a sincere enough attempt to explain the universe. It's proponents tend to believe in it most sincerely.
ID on the other hand is and always has been a fudge, a big lie, designed to get creationism into schools under the wire, so to speak.
Creationism seems to me, to be wrong about almost everything, but honest and sincere at its heart, whereas ID strikes me as rotten to the core.
Having said that, literal Bible style creationism requires a much larger set of falsehoods for support than ID does.
Going back to Bush, I have always been deeply suspicious about how sincere his born again conversion really is. I can't help but wonder if it isn't largely played up in order to appeal to a religious support base. Certainly, many other members of his circle are happy to exploit the religious right, without believing it themselves. Karl Rove is said to have described fundamentalists as "the nuts". He's quite happy to court their vote however.
I'm deeply sceptical of the GOP's link to religion and i think they should drop it before it poisons their party.
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