Palin is a Young Earth Creationist?

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Saturday September 20, 2008 · 12:00 PM PDT

2008/09/20 · 12:00

Via Ed Brayton, Salon reports disturbing evidence that Sarah Palin is a follower of Young Earth Creationism:

"I pushed her on the earth's creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she'd seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them."

Palin may have been referring to shyster Carl Baugh's dino-human footprint scam. A hoax so transparently dishonest that even Baugh's fellow creationist carnival barkers have turned on him for hawking it.

A young earth creationist who sticks to teaching Sunday school or sells mooseburgers is relatively harmless. But this person could be a 72 year-old heartbeat away from the Oval Office. And according to the piece, not only does Palin believe the earth might be a few thousand years old, she thinks it will come to an end in her lifetime. She proudly attends church services and appears on stage beside a pastor who believes Alaska will be a divine final refuge in the soon to come End Times. Maybe it’s a cynical act by a skilled faker, but Palin sure comes off like an enthusiastic True Believer. If someone like that is in charge of the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, Armageddon could become, literally, a self fulfilling prophecy. To coin a phrase, can we afford to wait for the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud?

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