Mike Huckabee and Bill O'Reilly on Creation and Evolution

I respect Huckabee for making it clear that he does not believe it is his place to say who will make it to heaven and who won't; I also also respect him for saying that even though he does not believe in evolution it's not his place to impose his beliefs on others. However, he says that "that's the beauty of America" when stating that people are free to believe what they want- I think this is ironic, becuase he also says that the American people should know about his faith and what he believes in; clearly what believe religiously does matter. Personally, I find Huckabee to be somewhat irritating in this clip becuase he gets kind of annoyed while defending himself; if he came off more calm I think he would have had a stronger effect on the listeners. In terms of prayer in the classroom, having an allotted time for prayer seems just bizarre to me and contradictory to the entire idea behind separation of state and religion, but it doesn't sound like he wants to bring prayer back into the classroom or even grant a time for prayer. Becuase I very much believe in evolution, it just seems scary to me that a potential President of our country thinks that "we are not descendants of apes-" which, by the way, is a ignorant way of describing the evolutionary process- but the bottom line is that a vast number of people agree with him, and in many ways this could end up helping him. I just wish that religion did not play such a significant role in American politics...or that it just didn't play a role at all.