{"id":2474,"date":"2008-01-04T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/04\/huckabee-on-evolution\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T18:00:00","slug":"huckabee-on-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/huckabee-on-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee On Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of his Iowa victory, Mike Huckabee is doing the news and talk show circuit.  Here are his comments this AM on evolution.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; grilled Huckabee about his evangelical ties, making Creationism the issue.ABC&#8217;s Robin Roberts mentioned a new book from the National Academy of Sciences that says Creationism has no place in the classroom &#8212; given the overwhelming evidence in favor of evolution.&#8221;Do you agree with that &#8212; that Creationism should be kept out of our classrooms,&#8221; Roberts asked.&#8221;In ten-and-a-half years as a governor, I never touched it,&#8221; Huckabee said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not an issue for a president. It wasn&#8217;t even an issue for me as a governor, and governors do deal with education &#8211; but not the curriculum.&#8221; Huckabee said his focus as governor was on music and arts in education.&#8221;Should creationism be banned from the classroom, yes or no?&#8221; Roberts persisted.&#8221;Banned? Well, banning sounds like sort of a censorship,&#8221; Huckabee said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think most people agree with censorship. Should we teach it as a doctrine? Of course not. Should we teach that some people believe it, some don&#8217;t? I think that&#8217;s academic freedom.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\/Politics\/archive\/200801\/POL20080104f.html\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of his Iowa victory, Mike Huckabee is doing the news and talk show circuit. Here are his comments this AM on evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55,33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-DU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}