I guess it's true: you can't expect to succeed as a Republican today without publicly espousing anti-science rhetoric and support the brigades of anti-science religious conservatives. Yes, John McCain supports teaching religion alongside science in science classes.

The Arizona Daily Star explains in a story about how McCain appears to be starting a run for the White House (via Pharyngula):

McCain told the Star that, like Bush, he believes “all points of view” should be available to students studying the origins of mankind.

The theory of intelligent design says life is too complex to have developed through evolution, and that a higher power must have had a hand in guiding it.

McCain also called Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mother camped outside of Bush’s ranch in Texas, a “symptom, not a cause” of growing public discontent with the war. Maybe she’s actually a “symptom” of an incompetently waged conflict that was launched for the wrong reasons on the basis of doctored intelligence? As a veteran Vietnam, McCain has enough personal experience to recognize that sort of thing when it happens.

Anyway, when an allegedly moderate Republican (staunchly conservative, no question about it, but “moderate” when it comes to the party) comes out in defense of anti-science attitudes, you know that the entire GOP is in serious trouble.

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