Sarah Palin, creationist

Lest otherwise intelligent people fall for Huggy Bear's transparent ploy to attract disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters and superficial men (some may fall into both categories, I know) by choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate, let's take a look back at one of Gov. Palin's greatest hits, less than two years ago, when as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, she was running for the office she now holds.

The volatile issue of teaching creation science in public schools popped up in the Alaska governor's race this week when Republican Sarah Palin said she thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution in the state's public classrooms.

Palin was answering a question from the moderator near the conclusion of Wednesday night's televised debate on KAKM Channel 7 when she said, "Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both."

Her main opponents, Democrat Tony Knowles and Independent Andrew Halcro, said such alternatives to evolution should be kept out of science classrooms. Halcro called such lessons "religious-based" and said the place for them might be a philosophy or sociology class.

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Palin said she thought there was value in discussing alternatives.

"It's OK to let kids know that there are theories out there," she said in the interview. "They gain information just by being in a discussion."

That was how she was brought up, she said. Her father was a public school science teacher.

"My dad did talk a lot about his theories of evolution," she said. "He would show us fossils and say, 'How old do you think these are?' "

Asked for her personal views on evolution, Palin said, "I believe we have a creator."

She would not say whether her belief also allowed her to accept the theory of evolution as fact.

"I'm not going to pretend I know how all this came to be," she said.

Keep your faith off of my children, Governor. And stop claiming evolution is a "theory," you science-hating Barbie doll. Your father should be ashamed of you. You certainly didn't learn much from him, did you?

(h/t to Aldis, via e-mail)