Because while fundamentalists reject the scientific they also claim that there own religious beliefs are supported by science. Hence why you get organisations such as Answers in Genesis and the Institute of Creation Research publishing books and articles which claim that the scientific evidence supports a young earth a global flood etc. which do little more than misrepresent and distort the work of real scientists.

The problem with this is that a lot of people who perhaps do not have a basic understanding of science believe that such works by for instance "Professor Henry M. Morris PHD." are scientific because the person who wrote it has a PHD and calls themselves a scientists, even if it is a PHD in an irrelevant field such as engineering and the "scientist" in questions has never published any actual scientific research in any peer reviewed journals.

Amazing how with all the evidence supporting Romney being an absolute batcrazy loon who hates half the country, that it only takes one session of not sounding batcrazy in a televised debate for people to forget that he's batcrazy.

It was a totally depressing hour and a half showing just why Jon Huntsman called Romney a "perfectly lubricated weather vane". The only thing more stunning to see than Romney chucking his entire platform overboard was Obama not nailing him for it. I can only assume he was equally amazed and had, foolishly, come prepared to go after him on his previously stated policies. It's quite hard to take someone to task when they stand for nothing and everything.

Romney now ahead in some polls

I would have thought after the last time you'd avoid any mention of polls...

Quote Ajw71="Ajw71"Romney now ahead in some polls '" Or is he... fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.co ... right-now/ He has a very narrow, but not implausible, window of victory in the electoral college. The country is now so polarised (and, following the arguments of some, the effects of [u[url=http://www.thebigsort.com/home.php"the big sort"[/url[/u getting so pervasive) that 41 of the states are basically not in play this time around.

Quote Ajw71="Ajw71"Romney now ahead in some polls '" Or is he... fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.co ... right-now/ He has a very narrow, but not implausible, window of victory in the electoral college. The country is now so polarised (and, following the arguments of some, the effects of [u[url=http://www.thebigsort.com/home.php"the big sort"[/url[/u getting so pervasive) that 41 of the states are basically not in play this time around.

You mean the last time when I posted polls of thousands of pepole who agreed with my opinion and because you and one other said you didn't agree with them they suddenly all became irrelevant.

"Thousands" ???

Yes, one had twenty seven THOUSAND replies.

But I guess as the poll outcome doesn't fit with your opinions, it's irrelevant and only your opinion counts.

One only had a couple of hundred too as I recall, yet you still attached equal importance.

What really matters of course is the context of the poll, a poll of audience members at this weeks Tory party conference would have resulted in a predicted 650 seat majority at the next election whereas a poll of six month old turkey chicks this week would have been unanimously in favour of abandoning christmas this year.

Any poll is irrelevant when it is biased in its selection and choice of question regardless of the size of its poll, the readers personal opinion has nothing to do with such careless polling.

I think Ajw71 would like unskewedpolls.com/ When Romney was doing badly, the far right decided to create their own alternate reality where he was, in fact, miles ahead. All you needed to do was change (sorry "deskew") a few characteristics of the opinion polls and suddenly everything was going to be alright. "Deskewing" I guess has the effect of tweaking the samples so that the poll population was corrected to be more Republican (and therefore white, southern, male and elderly) than those biased liberal pollsters were projecting. Suddenly, they were able to comfort themselves that everything was going to be alright.

I think Ajw71 would like unskewedpolls.com/ When Romney was doing badly, the far right decided to create their own alternate reality where he was, in fact, miles ahead. All you needed to do was change (sorry "deskew") a few characteristics of the opinion polls and suddenly everything was going to be alright. "Deskewing" I guess has the effect of tweaking the samples so that the poll population was corrected to be more Republican (and therefore white, southern, male and elderly) than those biased liberal pollsters were projecting. Suddenly, they were able to comfort themselves that everything was going to be alright.