Huckabee was asked about his view on adding the teaching of creationism in school curriculum. However, he had evaded the question and dismissed it by answering: “We’ve answered that so many times, I don’t even want to talk about it.”
“Clearly a president would have leverage,” the reporter continued in response to Huckabee dodging the question.
“Let me explain how education works. You probably don’t realize. Governors handle education. But governors don’t even get into the curriculum of the schools. I was a governor for ten and a half years. Ask the people of Arkansas how many times I wrote curriculum for the eighth grade textbooks. So why would I do it as president if I didn’t do it as governor?” Huckabee asked the reporter.
According to Mike Huckabee, he said that he had been selected to be the chairman of the Education Commission of states for two years. In that position as Chairman, Huckabee had helped redesign of the curriculum of high schools throughout the nation.
“It never came up, designing the curriculum for science text books,” he explained. Huckabee added: “You guys are fascinated with that, but I have not met a single individual citizen in all of America yet in all the states I’ve traveled that said I’m really worried you’re going to tinker with the science text books for eighth graders.”
Ever since Huckabee raised his hand in the Republican debate in May when asked if they didn’t believe in evolution, he has been plagued with the issue of creationism.
Huckabee said on Chris Matthews on MSNBC: “If you want to believe that you and your family came from apes, I’ll accept that…I believe there was a creative process.”
Huckabee said that kids should not be indoctrinated in schools. He added: “I wouldn’t want them teaching creationism as if it’s the only thing that they should teach.”
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