{"id":124,"date":"2005-11-14T06:26:27","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T12:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=124"},"modified":"2010-09-12T11:19:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T17:19:39","slug":"abqjournal-intelligent-design-has-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/abqjournal-intelligent-design-has-support\/","title":{"rendered":"ABQjournal: \r\n\r\nIntelligent Design Has Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note, in particular, how many people in this survey knew nothing about ID<\/abbr> before the survey. If you actually know what’s going on, you’re less likely to support ID. <\/p>\n

With 60% of Republicans in NM supporting ID, it’s no surprise you don’t hear much talk lately about them being the party of “deep <\/p>\n

thinkers” (as they called themselves just a few years ago). mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NM ID poll<\/p>\n

ABQjournal: Intelligent Design Has Support<\/a> BY JOHN FLECK, Journal <\/p>\n

Staff Writer
\nBut poll suggests many don\u2019t know much about issue
\nCopyright \u00a9 2005 Albuquerque Journal<\/p>\n

The idea of teaching <\/p>\n

\u201cintelligent design\u201d in New Mexico public school science classes has more support than opposition among the state\u2019s registered voters, <\/p>\n

according to a Journal poll.<\/p>\n

But the support falls just short of a majority, and the poll also suggests that a lot of New <\/p>\n

Mexicans don\u2019t know much about the issue one way or another. …<\/p>\n

53 percent said they had heard or read about intelligent design, <\/p>\n

compared with 43 percent who said they had not<\/strong>. (The remainder didn\u2019t know or wouldn\u2019t say.) …<\/p>\n

Intelligent <\/p>\n

design opponent Marshall Berman, education director of the New Mexico Academy of Science, said he believes the willingness to allow <\/p>\n

teaching of intelligent design alongside evolution was likely a result of \u201cthe American concept of fairness.\u201d<\/strong> [mjh: what <\/p>\n

a sweet and gracious thought.]<\/p>\n

He said those people did not understand that intelligent design is not scientific and that, in <\/p>\n

his view, belief in intelligent design tends to be equated with belief in a creator in contemporary society. <\/p>\n

Pollster Brian <\/p>\n

Sanderoff, whose Research and Polling Inc. conducted the survey, noted that support for teaching intelligent design in school was <\/p>\n

lower among those who had already heard or read about the subject<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Among those who were already aware of the <\/p>\n

issue, 48 percent opposed teaching it in school, compared with 46 percent in support.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sanderoff also noted that the <\/p>\n

more educated people were, the less likely they were to support teaching intelligent design in school. Among political parties, Democrats <\/p>\n

were evenly split on the issue, with 44 percent supporting teaching intelligent design in school and 45 percent opposed. <\/p>\n

Republicans strongly supported teaching intelligent design in schools, 60 percent to 32 percent.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note, in particular, how many people in this survey knew nothing about ID before the survey. If you actually know what’s going on, you’re less likely to support ID. With 60% of Republicans in NM supporting ID, it’s no surprise you don’t hear much talk lately about them being the party of “deep thinkers” (as … Continue reading ABQjournal: <\/p>\n

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