I've often wondered that about Nigel Farage

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

"Thousands" ???

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"icon_wink.gif 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"icon_wink.gif 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.

Not but you laughed when I stated thousands, impyling that I had made it up. I had not and you were wrong.

So he's not doing badly anymore. Glad we agree.

I stated he was ahead in some polls last night - this was factually correct.

I'm sorry if these particular polls you don't agree with but others are entiled to an opinion as well y'know. Contrary to popular belief it's not just the likes of [iHim's[/i opinion that matters.