It's like supposing that he would have believed in evolution.
She believed in evolution, she said, but she also had "a religious background," and wanted to hear "other points of view".
Our intel analysts are baffled that the leading Democrat, Mrs. Clinton, no longer believes in globalization and the leading Republican, Mr. Huckabee, never believed in evolution.
Eyebrows were raised in London last month when Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, refused to answer a question about whether he believed in evolution.
At a 2007 Republican candidates' debate, John McCain was asked point-blank whether he believed in evolution, and he said yes.
In 2009, the gap between the share of Republicans and Democrats who believed in evolution was just 10 percentage points, 54 percent and 64percentt, respectively.
But the argument also exposes tensions within the Republicans' "big tent," as could be seen Thursday night when the party's 10 candidates for president were asked during their first debate whether they believed in evolution.
Jon Huntsman tweeted that he not only believed in evolution but trusted scientists reports on climate change — "Call me crazy," he wrote, and many people did (until he backed off his support).
There was, however, one striking sort of counter-ceremony: the Wisconsin governor and would-be Republican Presidential candidate Scott Walker, asked, in London, if he "believed in evolution," took a pass.
But Walker's longstanding opposition to knowledge may have faced its toughest test during a visit to London, on Wednesday, when an interviewer asked him if he believed in evolution and he refused to answer.
Erika Heikl, 16, one of 14 students from Bishop Seabury Academy, a Christian school in Lawrence, Kan., who attended the hearings, said she believed in evolution -- and that the standards should be changed to include its detractors.
