Why evangelicals might vote for Roy Moore anyway [View all]

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From the article:

Conservative Christians, said Molly Worthen, a historian of American religion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have developed an intellectual strategy for engaging with the public called “presuppositionalism.”
It holds that evangelicals should examine other people’s underlying suppositions before debating them. If those people or groups don’t adhere to the right worldview — one that accepts the Bible as the inerrant word of God — they should not be trusted.

To read more:

http://religionnews.com/2017/11/20/why-evangelicals-might-vote-for-roy-moore-anyway/

As a progressive, and as someone who was not raised in an evangelical environment, this "presuppositionalism” is an interesting concept that could certainly explain the resistance to science, especially as relates to evolution, and a resistance to any dialogue.