Economics
Punt, Fumble, or Touchdown? These GOP Candidates Won't Endorse Evolution
It's a question that keeps being asked of White House hopefuls.
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As Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker showed on Wednesday, the theory of evolution continues to challenge presidential aspirants. Over the past few election cycles, Democratic candidates often voiced their unabashed support of Darwin's scientific breakthrough, while Republicans offered up views ranging from outright denial to complex hedging to less than full-throated support.
The divide is not just political, however. While 99.85% of American earth and life scientists believe the theory of evolution to be bedrock fact, 42% of the general public surveyed in a 2014 Gallup poll said they believed that human beings arrived on the earth in their present form.