That video interview contradicts Sarah Palin's own Going Rogue book in which she said:
nut job and liar Sarah Palin wrote:
He [McCain strategist Steve Schmidt] knew my position: I believed in the evidence for microevolution—that geologic and species change occurs incrementally over time,” Palin writes. “But I didn’t believe in the theory that human beings—thinking, loving beings—originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea. Or that human beings began as single-celled organisms that developed into monkeys who eventually swung down from trees; I believed we came about not through a random process, but were created by God.
It just goes to show she is a stereotypical politician, i.e., she will change her story depending on who she is talking to and depending on whether or not she has been made fun of for her views and wants to make people think she has a different opinion now.
I do NOT trust Sarah Palin at all, even less than I trust most politicians, because she has that crazy fundamentalist streak in her that is in denial of what is demonstrably real. Since she denies the fact of evolution, she is obviously either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked (or some combination of the above). In any case, she is obviously quite unfit to be in any position of authority anywhere that has any power to make decisions on public policy regarding science or education.
Palin's acceptance of micro evolution (within kinds) but denial of macro evolution (fish to man) is blown away by all the genetic and fossil evidence that clearly shows transitions from one "kind" to another. Some examples of major transitions that are well-documented include fish to land animal, land animal to whale, dinosaurs to birds, and ape-like ancestor to human. Also, evolution is NOT a random process. While the mutations that create new information may be caused by random events, those mutations are only passed on if the life form survives long enough to produce offspring, and natural selection is the opposite of randomness. To deny reality is not sane, unless she is too stupid to understand the evidence. Either way, she should NEVER be a leader of anyone anywhere.
I fear theocracy coming to the USA, and what is scarier is that there are many people who would welcome it and who actually think that would be a return to the intent of our Founding Fathers (hint: it would be the OPPOSITE of what our Founding Fathers clearly intended according to their public AND private correspondence).
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