Percentage of Republicans who believe in evolution is shrinking

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25. It is about control, absoutely. MisterP posted a memo via Greepeace I will share below, also

when you look back at the Rep candidates that were running in the last primaries..they said
openly, several of them, they rejected evolution. I think for one reason, they have enough
dumb voters who want to hear this and two, it makes it easier for them to reject stem cell
research and abortions. Once you reject basic science, you can allow yourself a religious
cover to reject a host of issues.

The Lewis Powell Memo - Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy
Blogpost by Charlie Cray - August 23, 2011

Greenpeace has the full text of the Lewis Powell Memo available for review, as well as analyses of how Lewis Powell's suggestions have impacted the realms of politics, judicial law, communications and education.

Forty years ago today, on August 23, 1971, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., an attorney from Richmond, Virginia, drafted a confidential memorandum for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that describes a strategy for the corporate takeover of the dominant public institutions of American society.

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/the-lewis-powell-memo-corporate-blueprint-to-/blog/36466/