Intellectuals... do you DARE vote for at least ONE Creationist on the RNC ticket?

Question

Sarah Palin will replace the current curriculum by Bible studies should she become President, which is VERY likely if McCain gets it.

Answer 1

And she's gonna force women to wear their hair pinned up.

Answer 2

No worries. McCain/Palin have no chances

Answer 3

The whole idea of being intellectual implies that one use their head for something other than a hat rack.  So, no, I won't be voting for anyone who wants to espouse such nonsense.

Answer 4

The Executive branch doesn't make law.  The Legislative does.

More civics class for you, kid.

Answer 5

She has actually said publicly that she would not push to add creationism to state mandated curricula, only that she would push to allow school districts that chose to teach it side by side or offer it as an alternative to current evoluntionary theory.

Maybe you still have a problem with that, but it's a far cry from "replacing" the current curriculum.  Also, as has been pointed out, the President does not make laws, and could not enforce any such change without action of the legislature.

I'm voting for Obama anyway, but I would like to see people support him on the real issues (poverty, health care, education, taxes) and not on some red herring...

Answer 6

I'm an atheist and I'm voting for her.  

I don't for one minute believe that Obama isn't going after my firearms.  

I can't afford his tax increases and neither can most anybody else.

I'm not that happy with our government run schools, I would like to see an array of choices for parents and that if we are going to be taxing people to pay for public schools then that money should go to the school the parent's choose, not the one the politicians choose.  

We are never going to limit the out of control growth of our government and the wars it spawns until the liberals break faith with the government, if they will wake up and see the dangers of a curriculum driven by the politicians then we will have progress.  

I think it's absurd to teach creationism in school, but then most of what I was taught in school turned out to be a lie.

Answer 7

This would never happen.It does seem like a good idea to pass around some morals just about now,though.

Answer 8

I am amazed at how the educated (chuckle), enlightened (chuckle), paranoid left believes that one person can over turn the entire curriculum of public schools across America. You are driven by your emotions and fears as opposed to logic and evidence.  

Answer 9

It's pretty hard to vote for someone who believes such a preposterous concept as the  creation myth.  But she may be lucid on matters not brainwashed into her from childhood.

Answer 10

I am a Ph. D and I will be voting for McCain Palin

Answer 11

I am an intellectual.,........which is why I would only SCOFF at electing Sarah Palin.........someone who once backed the living incarnation of STUPIDITY for president,,,,,,,,,,,,

No, not George Bush............I meant the OTHER living incarnation of stupidty............Pat Buchanan.

We cannot let these mad hatters take public office...........

Come on......seriously,,,,,,,,,,,all politics aside...........

do women really WANT a woman who will set them BACK 100 years, at least?

Answer 12

No, I would never vote for someone I believed to be a sincere Creationist.  A hypocritical Creationist, maybe, but a sincere Creationist is clearly living in a fantasy world.

Answer 13

It is total B S that the only theory taught in colleges is Evolution, it is NOT proven as of yet, and the instatution will not even let BOTH ideas to be taught, which sounds like communism to me.

go rent.... eXpelled; no intelligence required

BOTH ideas should be taught, because NIETHER one can prove its case!!

Answer 14

Palin is a right-wing extremist! That is why the GOP base love her!

Answer 15

No worries she want get the chance at forcing religion into our public schools .

OBAMA/BIDEN 2008  

Answer 16

not only intellectuals.. ANYONE who cares about not having the welcome mat out for religious extremists at the supreme court.  

Answer 17

Absolutely not. Subjecting America's schoolkids to creationism will do to their minds what eating lead will do to their bodies. If we let those creationist wackos add their theology to the curriculum, the next step is adding paint chips to the school lunch menu.

Answer 18

Absolutely, positively, and most certainly not.

Then again, I couldn't if I wanted to, since I'm 17.

Answer 19

Well said top-contributor:  MIKE.  :)

Answer 20

creationism has no place in schools unless it's taught in a class on ancient myths.  it has no scientific basis, and is, in fact based on a book that has numerous mistakes in it.  do rabbits chew cud?  do grasshoppers and beetles have 4 legs?  the bible says they do.  should we make sure that our kids learn these 'facts' as well?  what about all the other religions?  they all have their own creation stories too.  

religion has no place in american schools!!  send your kids to a private school or homeschool them if you want to teach them this sort of nonsense.

Answer 21

Yes I do, because we need her badly. She would not replace the curriculum but add to it. When I was in school I was taught both and I was not scarred for life. Kids need to learn all kinds of things, not just the big bang theory or that they came from a monkey. I never bought in to that. (well. Looking at Michelle Obama, I might have to rethink that.)

Answer 22

The Republican Right is drooling at the thought of doing just that!! However,,she also is anti birth control,,contraceptives,,and is against teaching s*x education in schools..I'll bet she wishes she would have had it for her 17 unmarried daughter who is now pregnant..I just don't understand how common sense and reality teaching is something these people substitute for Religious ignorance...I was always taught knowledge is POWER,,however all THESE people want is POWER !!Let them teach Creationism in their Religious schools,,After all that's all it really is!!         L         H

Answer 23

I'm nauseated that Christians are taking the pseudosciences of creation and intelligent design seriously! Faking science has become so mainstream as of late, and nobody balks when they hear lies at the pulpit.

It is a new low for our country and I respect religion even less.

Answer 24

Don't worry, I'm a teacher and there's no way in h**l that I would teach creationism or any other religion. Neither will my colleagues.  

Answer 25

Nope.

Answer 26

No, no, she won't.  

For one, she wants to add Scientific Creationism to be taught ALONGSIDE Evolution, not IN PLACE of it.  

For two, unless something constitutes a violation of constitutional rights (and teaching alternate theories isn't a violation of any right), school curriculum is a state matter, not a federal one.  It's not her hand to play.

Answer 27

Good....did you know that Darwin who came up with the moronic evolution theory didn't believe it himself? It was just a bunch of idiots that took it as fact and there are still some today.

Answer 28

She should have run for President instead.

Answer 29

I could never vote for a creationist no matter the gender or the political party.  

Answer 30

You really don't know how our government works do you?

One person alone, let alone the VICE President, is going to push such legislation through.

And why is it that evolution is taught as a FACT rather than what it really is - a THEORY?   No proof, to date has proven total evolution as it is taught.

Answer 31

The death of science as we know it.  The US already lags behind in science education, and this will just push us into the dark ages, and cripple any hopes at ever again being a world leader in scientific exploration and education.