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.
You know I really had a lot of repect for Sarah Palin right up until this point. I had already decided to vote for Tony Knowles, but I really was split due to her extraordinary ethics.
But bringing up this ignorant debate makes Palin look like just another anti-science, anti -education, Republican who will kowtow to the religious right and allow them to put their superstitious nonsense into our tax funded classrooms.
I want ethics, morality, and intelligence in my next Governor. Sarah Palin seems to only have two of those attributes.
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