"I'm a Christian, and I believe in parents being able to provide children with religious instruction without interference from the state. But I also believe our schools are there to teach worldly knowledge and science. I believe in evolution, and I believe there's a difference between science and faith. That doesn't make faith any less important than science. It just means they're two different things. And I think it's a mistake to try to cloud the teaching of science with theories that frankly don't hold up to scientific inquiry." - Obama
"It's not 'faith' if you are absolutely certain," Obama said, noting that he didn't believe his lack of "faith" would hurt him a national election. "Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels." - http://blogs.physicstoday.org/politics08/2008/01/barack_obama_on_teaching_evolu.html
On what?
A matter of opinion, but, in my view, the continuing economic stagnation.
to make the rich pay more and the poor pay less
Mitt Romney believes that God created the universe, and evolution is the mechanism He used to create humans. Romney believes that science classes should have evolution taught, not creationism or intelligent design. He states that they are perfectly fine in a philosophy, religion, or history classroom. This is his view from 2008. It seems that he has been relatively quiet on this issue since he started running for the Republican nomination.
He is in favour of it.
The answer is Paleontology.
Confucianism teaches that human evolution exists, rather than creationism. There is a highly optimistic view on human nature, that human beings are teachable and improvable.
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He was teaching as fact what was considered at the time to be an hypothesis or theory. He was not asked to renounce his view, just to quit teaching the unproven as fact.
The Vatican's view of evolution is that it could be possible but in some point, God must have put a human soul into a human.
Lamark believed that behaviors learned by parents could become inheritable traits.