You know when little Johnny is playing with his dinosaurs and he starts to have them attack little Sally’s Barbies? While Sally starts to cry hysterically, you calmly explain that dinosaurs existed before people and that this run-in would have never actually happened. But in Sarah Palin’s house? Barbie isn’t safe at all. Palin once claimed that men and dinosaurs coexisted and that Earth was created 6000 years ago even though scientists say that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago.
According to Wasilla resident and educator Philip Munger, he asked Mayor Palin in 1997 about her religious beliefs in a casual conversation.
"Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time,". When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.
The idea of a "young Earth"—that God created the Earth about 6,000 years ago, and dinosaurs and humans coexisted early on—is a popular strain of creationism.
Though in her race for governor she called for faith-based "intelligent design" to be taught along with evolution in Alaska's schools, Gov. Palin has not sought to require it, state educators say.
In a widely-circulated interview, Matt Damon said of Palin, "I need to know if she really think that dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago. I want to know that, I really do. Because she's gonna have the nuclear codes." "
Barbie better hide.
Via Huffington Post
