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Huckabee 'wrong' on evolution stand, Beebe says Wednesday, May 9, 2007 By Rob Moritz Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - Gov. Mike Beebe said Tuesday that he disagrees with former Gov. Mike Huckabee over the issue of evolution. "I think he's wrong," Beebe told reporters when asked about Huckabee raising his hand last week during a presidential debate among Republican candidates when the moderator asked who doesn't believe in evolution. Huckabee, a Baptist preacher, along with two of the others in the debate indicated they did not believe in evolution. "I don't think that believing in God and believing in evolution are mutually exclusive," Beebe said Tuesday. "I think you can believe in both. I believe in God, I think he started it, but then I think there's all kinds of scientific evidence that we've had evolution." Evolution is a scientific model that's been taught in higher education circles and public schools "for since I was a little kid," the governor said. "I think there's science to support it," he said. "That's just my belief. I guess (Huckabee's) entitled to his." Huckabee said in an interview after last week's debate that he is not opposed to teaching evolution as a theory and doesn't expect public schools to teach the Biblical version of creationism where God created the earth. "Our schools should teach children to think for themselves, not indoctrinate them, so we have to expose them to different theories and ultimately let them decide. Our public schools should present both evolution and creationism. I would not support public schools teaching only creationism," the former governor said Tuesday in a statement released by his campaign. "Evolution is a theory based on a lot of science, so it must be part of the curriculum." Huckabee said he believes "there is a God and that he put the creative process in motion." "I don't know how he did it: he may have used some sort of evolutionary process," he said. "I tend to believe that he did it as Scripture says, but I know that a lot of people believe differently, and of course I respect their beliefs." |
