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I don't trust the judgment of anyone who says they don't believe in evolution.
A politician's irrational beliefs about economics have a much larger effect on his ability to do his job than irrational beliefs about historical biology.
Politicians don't always say what they believe. Plus, conditional on the Christian God being real, you should reject evolution and almost all American politicians claim to believe in the Christian God.
Wait doesn't the Catholic Church accept evolution (with certain qualifications)?
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05655a.htm
etc.
I think the Catholic Church is PR savvy enough to realize that at this point wholesale denial of evolution is like wholesale denial of heavier than air flight (in both cases, the phenomenon is so well established that there are businesses that rely on it).
It looks like the Catholic Church was never strongly against evolution, and has since taken up the idea that evolution happened, though God was involved in the evolution of the human race.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_evolution
Opposition to evolution is a distinctively Fundamentalist position-- it's not characteristic of Christians in general.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_fundamentalism
Imagine all politicians of party A know a lot about economics. But because it polls better party A has an economic position that completely irrational.
Would you say it's fair to summarize party A as irrational in the aspect of economics?
Yes