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A new video featuring Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell from a television appearance in the 1990s has been released, and while not as eccentric as last week's infamous 'Witchcraft' video, it still presents the GOP's rising star in an unflattering light.

O'Donnell said to a groaning audience, "Evolution is a myth...why aren’t monkeys still evolving into humans?"

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Christine O'Donnell did not come out with this declaration about evolution when she was some uneducated teenager; rather, it happened when she was an uneducated adult, as she appears to remain today. But beyond any mere passing incomprehension of a fairly significant concept like evolution, O'Donnell appears to reside in a world where things that would traditionally grace the cover of the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS - alongside Bat Boy and the meddlings of the alien P'Lod in our government's affairs - are somehow real. Witness this bombshell she dropped on Bill O'Reilly in 2007: "American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains!"

Quite simply, a creationist or someone who thinks that the things that mad-scientist characters do in cartoons are real has every right to live and be that way - but they disqualify themselves from public office. To extend the above analogy, a creationist is akin to someone who claims that every so often, water will flow uphill or that a hammer may hover in place when you release your grip on it. Such a demonstrable and willful lack of understanding of the natural world calls into question any understanding they would have of the economic, political, technological, legal, and sociological worlds; I contend that a facility in those arenas - or, at bare minimum, the the facility to acquire the knowledge as called upon - is a prerequisite for elected officials. Her endorsees and her ardent supporters do not hold this view. It is vitally important that they be counteracted and outnumbered at the polls.

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