We are faced with the possibility of having a President or Vice President who feels strongly that he is capable and knowledgeable enough to lead our country, but who doesn't believe in any of the science that tells us that the earth and universe are older than a few thousand years.
There are those who claim strong religious convictions, that believe in the idea of Creationism, "a doctrine or theory holding that matter, the various forms of life and the world were created by God out of nothing and usually in the way described in Genesis."— Quote from Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
To believe in Creationism is to believe that everything started around 3760 B.C.E. That nothing existed before that time. For wise people to believe this indicates a need for them to prove their faith above and beyond what is necessary for a strong religious foundation and ethical guide.
Mike Huckabee, running for the Republican nomination for President is one of these people. For him to believe that nothing existed before this time puts a great burden on the public's ability to trust this man's judgment.
It is all well and good to take comfort, strength and faith from the Bible. There are many that do. But for him to expound such a strict adherence to the time line drawn from the Bible shows an over dependence on dogma that brings into question his rationality. We have already seen how an over dependence on ideology can be misused.
The men that wrote the Bible almost 2000 years ago had little to go on when establishing a pre-historic time line. Radiocarbon dating(carbon 14), radiometric dating, potassium-argon dating, electron spin resonance and other methods of determining age did not exist then. The knowledge that the first hominid, or creature that walked upright lived over three million years ago is a recent discovery.
The existence of evolution doesn't deny the existence of a creator or diminish any belief in religion in any way. It does not limit religion's role as an ethical guide in any way.