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[spooky_nine]

Palin treads carefully between fundamentalist beliefs and public policy

ANCHORAGE -- Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.

After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.

Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. 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.

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Comments

[you-vs-dai.livejournal.com]

Yup. She scares me.

[cdat1ad.livejournal.com]

So what? I do not believe as she does, but have reached a point in my life where anyone who has faith, and does not cram it down my throat is ok by me.

[(Anonymous)]

She's a religious nut job. I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but she's crazy and she scares me. She supports a pastor that incited a mob to drive a pagan woman from her home in Kenya. She's totally off her rocker.

[enderseven.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that, didn't realize I wasn't logged in.