"About half of Americans reject an evolutionary explanation for the origin of humans and believe that God created humans at one time 'as is.' Those with lower levels of education, those who attend church regularly, those who are 65 and older, and those who identify with the Republican Party are more likely to believe in the biblical view of the origin of humans than are those who do not share these characteristics."
Let's take a moment to look at the issue of human origins. You want evidence for common ancestors? Got it. Observations of speciation? Check. A time scale allowing human evolution (non-random survival of random traits)? Here ya go, pal. Science, the human creation that knows its limits, has some good arguments on its side when it comes to human origins.
Now let's compare that to the Bible's account of human origins. Everything has a cause, except God, so God is the cause of everything. Plants appeared before before the sun did. All animals originally ate plants, not each other. Humans can eat any tree or plant. Snakes used to get around by some other non-snakey means, and now they eat dust. People didn't exist at all, then they did, but only one man, and then one woman, then a bunch of stuff happened and here we are. Teach the controversy! Religion, the divine creation that is never wrong, is right. See, it says right here it is right!
So maybe the reason there is such 'support for the troops' (code for willingly ignoring wars of conquest, torture, secret prisons, kidnappings, etc.) is that these people prefer to be stupid and cruel and self-defeating. In a word, Christian.
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