[单选题]Today’s politicians seem more comfortable invoking God and religion than they do presenting facts or numbers.Of course, everyone is 1______to his or her own religious beliefs. 2______when science and reason get short-changed, so does America’s future.As we 3______toward the next election, it’s important to keep an 4______on how our political leaders view science and its advances, because their attitudes frequently 5______their approaches toward rational decision-making itself. When Rick Perry says evolution is merely "a theory that’s out there, it’s got some 6______in it," he’s 7______a fundamental misunderstanding of scientific theory.And when he chooses to pray for the end of a drought 8______critically evaluate climate science, he is displaying the danger of 9______rational approaches with religion in matters of public policy. What we are seeing in the current presidential race is not so much a/an 10______between religion and science as a fundamental disregard 11______rational and scientific thinking.All but two of the Republican front runners won’t even consider that man-made global warming might be causing climate change, 12______a great deal of evidence that it is.We know CO warms the planet through the greenhouse effect, and we know humans have 13______a huge increase in CO in the atmosphere by burning coal and oil. 14______man-made climate change is not proved with 100% certainty does not 15______its dismissal. 16______, an important part of science is understanding uncertainty.When scientists say we know something, we mean we have 17______our ideas with a degree of accuracy over a range of scales.Scientists also 18______the limitations of their theories and define and try to extend the range of 19______. When the method is applied properly,the right results 20______over time. 第1题答案是______。