Gallup: Plurality of Americans skeptical about evolution

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

It should surprise no one that conservatives would have little interest in evolution.  After all conservatism is at its core a philosophy that thinks change is bad.  Evolution, with its message of adapt or die, runs directly counter to the aspirations of conservatism, and that's before one considers any theological impact caused by an acceptance of evolution.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

It should surprise no one that conservatives would have little interest in evolution.  After all conservatism is at its core a philosophy that thinks change is bad.  Evolution, with its message of adapt or die, runs directly counter to the aspirations of conservatism, and that's before one considers any theological impact caused by an acceptance of evolution.

By that logic one can just as easily say it should surprise no one that progressives would have little interest in thermodynamics.  After all progressivism is at its core a philosophy that thinks change is good.  Thermodynamics tells us "social progress" is actually just a progression toward the entropic heat death of the universe guaranteeing the destruction of all life and worldly pleasure.

Progressivism does not hold that all change is good, but that it possible to choose those changes that improve society.  Now since most progressives today think society would be better if it were more equal, and since equalization of conditions is when applied to physics equivalent to an increase in entropy,, it seems to me one could argue that thermodynamics should be attractive to progressives, if one equates progressivism with egalitarianism.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

If you equate evolution with competition between organisms to ascertain which is the fittest, conservatives ought to love it as they tend to believe competition is good and challenges each member to be his best. An evolutionless world would look to many American conservatives as the biological equivalent of the government: no real competition.

While conservatives in the US largely believe in competition between individuals, that is because conservatism is here associated with laisse-faire capitalism and hence preserving that social order unchanged is part of the conservative ideal here.  However conservatism does not believe that such competition should lead to evolving social systems.  Rather conservatism believes that society ought to be static in its social structure.  Conservative dogma holds that if one were to take a random sample of people from 1014 and a second random sample of people from 2014, while each sample would have stronger and weaker individuals, then once controlled for the effects of a thousand years of technological development there would be no discernible differences between the two samples taken as a whole because the nature of man is unchanging.  Conservatism holds that society should be without evolution and that our current society (or perhaps a past version, if one is a reactionary conservative) is the best possible one and that any deviation from it inevitably leads not to evolution, but to degeneracy.