The question he asked - is Sarah Palin a Creationist? - is valid. That was never settled.
You're attempting to frame this in a "cultural war" context, which simply isn't valid.
This is about science. Politics has little, if anything, to do with it.
Much like climate change, people are mixing different worlds.
There is the issue of the science and then there is the issue of the politics. These are two separate worlds.
Accepting the reality of the science doesn't mean you're rejecting God (in the case of evolution) or that you want to dictate what kind of car a person drives (in the case of climate change).
A few years ago I went back to school, after a 20 plus year hiatus.
I was required to pass a number of Science Courses in order to achieve my personal goals.
Perhaps it is limited to Massachusetts, but I can assure you that some Professors are teaching a lot more than just Science out there.
I learned a lot more than just about the Krebs Cycle, or the Golgi Apparatus.
I learned that Ronald Reagan was responsible for the lack of AIDs research funding and that he was personally responsible for the deaths of thousands. A lot more than Science is being promulgated in those liberal enclaves.
What is going on in Colleges & Universities around the nation is an atrocity.
The secondary question -- whether someone being a creationist should disqualify them from public office -- is very troubling to a ...Free Republic.
Nice try at sweeping bigotry under the rug.
You need to address the question in context: to what extent would her creationism (if present) inform her policy and appointment choices to such an extent that it would really screw the country? And if they would, why can't we ban liberals from public office?
Learn to think your *own* positions through several layers deeper (and without retorting by strawman or ad hominem, otherwise you may occasionally come across as a liberal mouthing memorized platitudes, even after they have become non sequiturs to the point at hand.
Cheers! Cheers!
Likewise, accepting the reality of God doesn't make you anti-science like cm used to accuse everyone who disagreed with him of.
You're attempting to frame this in a "cultural war" context, which simply isn't valid.
It is a culture war and science is the weapon of choice with which to bludgeon Christianity with. It's being used to push religion out of schools in the name of science. It's been used to make out Christians as being ignorant and anti-progress.
The culture war is between the ideology that's hijacked science and Christianity.
It would do good for you guys to see that and rescue science from their grip. Evos refusal to do so only reinforces the idea that evos are throwing their chips in with the liberals/atheists/God haters.
You're going to have a hard time convincing anyone that you are not also liberal/atheist/God haters if you don't speak up against the abuse and misuse of science instead of justifying or excusing what they do.
You should get your head examined because it was you that brought Sara Palin up in the first place and politics and so on...