Excellent article by Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides in Wired about Mike Huckabee and his artful dodging of any real answer when people ask him about creationism:

Huckabee took Republican center stage after the Iowa caucuses, but his clever sidesteps of scientific questions are a warning sign. "Do you believe in evolution?" The short answer? No, he doesn't. People are charmed by him, asking why anyone should care since "[I'm] not planning on writing the curriculum for an eighth-grade science book," and "if anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it."

Whitesides goes on to say that he's missing the point pretty badly. There are big decisions to be made that, as president, he's going to have to make on real world issues, like who to fund and how much for scientific and medical research and appointing judges to make decisions in case about creationism is schools.

I agree. And the bottom line is that all of his beliefs and guiding principles inform those decisions. A person who believes unironically that the Earth is 6,000 years old isn't, in my opinion, working from the right decision making perspective. And that should inform my (but also everyone's) decision on who to vote for.

Labels: Mike Huckabee, politics