Sarah Palin and the Paluxy "Footprints"

As soon as I read this part of an article by David Talbot in Salon about Sarah Palin and Alaska politics, I recognized the hoax immediately. Here's a quote in the article referring to Palin talking about man and dinosaurs existing at the same time, with the proof being footprints (bold emphasis mine):

Another valley activist, Philip Munger, says that Palin also helped push the evangelical drive to take over the Mat-Su Borough school board. "She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board," said Munger, a music composer and teacher. "I bumped into her once after my band played at a graduation ceremony at the Assembly of God. I said, 'Sarah, how can you believe in creationism -- your father's a science teacher.' And she said, 'We don't have to agree on everything.'

"I pushed her on the earth's creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she'd seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them."

In that last paragraph, she's talking about the Paluxy footprints, which have often been brought up by Creationists to "prove" that man ran with the dinosaurs. To quote from that link, the Paluxi footprints are: "One of the most commonly encountered claims of the creationists is that creationist geologist Dr. Clifford Burdick, a member of the Creation Research Society, found modern human footprints next to dinosaur footprints along the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose, Texas, thus proving that (a) humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, and (b) evolution must therefore be wrong. "

The Paluxy footprints have long ago been proven to be a natural formations or man-made hoax. The linked article identified the "footprints" to be the following: "Paleontologists who examined the Paluxy "man prints" have without exception declared them to be nothing more than partially-registered dinosaur tracks, natural depressions, or, in some instances, deliberate forgeries carved by local residents to sell to tourists. These were also the conclusions reached by biologist Glen Kuban in 1980, as well as another group of scientists in 1984, which included physicist Ronnie Hastings, geologist Steven Schaferman, anthropologist John Cole and physical anthropologist Laurie Godfrey. (Arthur N. Strahler, "Science and Earth History", Prometheus Books, Buffalo NY, 1987, p. 463)"

So, there you have it. I certainly don't want anyone with such wackaloon views to hold a high public office.