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Are conservatives evolving?

Dover's intelligent design fiasco is sending shock waves through the right.

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  • Friday, November 18, 2005 03:25 PM

    Darwin was a Christian, too

    Darwin originally (long before he wrote about origins) planned to study for the ministry. Fortunately for us, he was distracted by science.

    From your article: "In the meantime, what's the real national embarrassment? The fact that Pat Robertson has threatened the citizens of Dover with divine retribution, or that so-called limited government conservatives got into bed with the religious right in the first place?"

    I have looked all over Salon's site for the cartoon that goes with this statement. Where is it? It should be pretty funny.

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