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Tom's point:

"How many conservative people here, or across America, do you think share the beliefs of those who would outlaw teaching evolution?"

This point is been made before -- the claim that the creationists are just a tiny fringe with no public support, and in particular that they are not representative of conservatives.

My point:

In fact, quite a few conservatives and Republicans would like to see evolution thrown out of public schools. Seems to clearly contradict Tom's assertion that few conservatives actually think that way.

I'll grant that you find creationists among Democrats too. Nevertheless, in this poll self-identified conservatives were about 50% more likely to support eliminating evolution than non-conservatives, and evangelical Christians were more than three times as likely as seculars and twice as likely as other Christians to support eliminating evolution.

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