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Mike Huckabee and Evolution

In their first presidential campaign debate, Republican party candidates were asked whether they believed in evolution. Not one, not two, but three presidential candidates failed to raise their hands. Republican Senator Sam Brownback, Republican Representative Tom Tancredo and Republican Governor Mike Huckabee each proclaimed a lack of belief in evolution.

Of those three, only Mike Huckabee is left in the 2008 presidential race.

There is a huge amount of evidence that has been carefully assembled in support of evolution. So, it seems that Mike Huckabee must have one of three thinking problems:

1) Ignorance. Perhaps Huckabee declared his disbelief in evolution in front of a national audience without really having looked into the subject first. That's not practicing safe politics.

2) Failure to understand. There are a lot of pretty accessible readings in evolution that lay out the case very well. If despite this, Huckabee still doesn't get it, what other complicated matters in governance will go right over his pretty little head?

3) Pandering. Perhaps Huckabee really does believe in evolution, but he's lying because he knows that some parts of the Republican population will reward him at the ballot box and with campaign donations if he's pretends to be a Creationist. We've had more than six years of a president who is willing to look reality in the face and spit in it. We can't afford four more.

Republican Governor Mike Huckabee, after he indicated he didn't believe in evolution in a presidential debate, showed surprise that anyone would really care. Said Huckabee, "I'm not sure what in the world that has to do with being president of the United States."

Mike Huckabee needs to take out his brain for a jog more often. If Huckabee doesn't believe in evolution, then as president he should stop that wasteful, wasteful spending on research about drug-resistant bacteria. He should also stop epidemiologists from wasting taxpayer money on bird flu as a health threat. Since Huckabee doesn't believe in evolution, why worry about organisms taking on new forms as a result of changes in ecologies? Also, why bother with funding for HIV-infected people in the US and Africa to give them AIDS cocktails? The cocktails are specifically designed to counter evolutionary adaptation of various strains of HIV. If Huckabee doesn't believe in evolution, why would he bother dispensing drugs that account for evolutionary dynamics within a human body?

Of course, it's also possible that Mike Huckabee doesn't have an idea what he means when he says he doesn't believe in evolution. Given the importance of health policy and the centrality of the theory of evolution to current medical science, that alternative possibility is frightening, too.

From Irregular Times