Looks like our right-wing friends is gonna e-volve themselves right outta existence…

Chas. Darwin
(the early years)

In his 1859 publication of On The Origin of Species, Charlie Darwin concluded that his notion of natural selection provided a much more serene and magisterial approach to the origin of life within our natural world:

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

The seriously cool part about Darwin’s (some say Satan-inspired) little idea is not merely his “grandeur view of life,” but rather that his (not entirely original – yup, it also evolved) “theory” is proven time and time, and time – and yes, time again to…to be…to be, oh, what’s that word? Oh, yeah, that’s right – it's true! Don’t believe me? Check-it-out, here’s a contemporary and real world, objective and even tangible example illustrating Darwin’s notion of natural selection in all its subtle glory.

Between March and April 2013, The Pew’s Religion & Public Life Project randomly polled over 1900 adults throughout the U.S., and asked a number of questions about religious beliefs, political affiliations, gender, race, and even if the respondents “believed” in evolution or rather, were they adherents of the notion of a divinely inspired creation.

God
(or Santa?)

(looks like God)

That is, did those polled believe that some invisible, all-knowing, all-powerful, deity who, by definition, existed before even time, energy, matter, gravity and all that other groovy stuff – and even though middle eastern Jews first wrote about him, somehow managed to look a lot like a seriously buffed Santa, or Ian McKellen (à la Gandalf, minus the gay of course); one day apparently felt that whole self-worship thing wasn’t cutting it, ‘n decided that what he really needed to make his godliness more better were a couple of minions to worship and admire him in all his splendor and greatness, an up ‘n decided to create life, the Universe and darn near everything (thanks Doug Adams) – especially including man and again, even though he had every opportunity to do it anywhere he wanted – Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon or anywhere nice would have been…nice, heck, the North Shore of Hawaii still makes for a splendid paradise (if'n he could just get rid of those annoying tourists), but apparently chose that freakin’ god forsaken land between the Tigris and Euphrates (been there, it seriously blows – big time) and, again, even though it’s in the middle of the middle east, decided to up ‘n create a European lookin’ dude ‘n dudette (I guess ‘cause Europe is much classier than…not Europe?). And then decided, well...you get the idea.

(definitely a white dude...)

So, did those polled believe than life was created, in its present form by God (no, not Gods)? Or in the alternative, did they essentially believe the Universe started some 13.5 billion years ago, the Galaxy 13 billion years ago, the Solar System 4.8 billion, the Earth some 4.5 billion years ago; did simple cells develop some 3.6 billion years ago, complex cells 2 billion years ago, multi-celled organisms 1 billion years ago, simple "animals" 600 million years, mammals 200 million, primates 60 million, hominids some 20 million years ago, and well, heck…‘Voila! Present day dudes ‘n dudettes!

Back to the whole point of this thing. Last spring the nice folks at Pew polled them folks, just like they did four years earlier. They then did what any good, reality-based thinkers do – they compared the results. Here's the deal:

In 2009, 64% of Democrats said humans evolved over time, while 4 years later, that number increased to over two-thirds or fully 67% of Democrats saying folks done e-volved over time. With just about every bit of polling data showing that Democrats continue to outnumber their Republican opponents, and especially when considering the increase in the U.S. population, it’s easy to see how the left is surviving – nay, even flourishing.

It's not just natural, natural selection!

Prof. Megginson

But who said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change”? No, while most folks like to give him credit, it certainly wasn’t Chuck Darwin (it’s actually a paraphrase from a Professor Leon C. Megginson, a marketing professor at LSU who wrote something pretty close to it back in ‘63)?

Point being is that them infernal lefties is clearly adaptable to change. Heck, pretty sure that’s the bedrock foundation of their “Liberal” ideology – that whole inclusive, “changey” thing (a demonic euphemism for evolution, to be sure).

Wha-What’s that? What about them other guys? See, in that same study, 54% of Republicans said they believed folks evolved over time and now, nearly 4 years later with our Tea Baggin’ friends seizing control of Lincoln’s GOP, the number of Republicans stating that humans have evolved, dropped to 43%. Corresponding with this fairly substantial decline is the Gallup party affiliation tracking poll  which shows that as recently as September 2004, fully 39% of registered voters identified themselves as Republicans. By October 2008, the number of folks claiming GOP loyalty had dropped to 33%, by May 2010, to 30%, and by the end of 2012, the number had plummeted to 24%.

Ergo (one ‘o them fancy-schmancy words meaning, therefore), the political party most adaptable to change is the one that will clearly survive. With the number of registered Republicans dropping faster than a hooker’s panties at a political convention (or hooker’s at the C-Street House or dropping faster’n David Vitter’s diapers, take yer pick), looks like our right-wing friends is gonna e-volve themselves right outta existence…

Links:
Darwin's On The Origin of Species (.pdf format)
Publics views on human evolution

Gallup poll party affiliation

The Darwin Project, Six things Darwin never said

The first life on Earth

Human evolution research (Smithsonian Institution)