Why can't I have a dinosaur?

According to Palin, I missed them by less than 6,000 years:

ANCHORAGE -- Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct

Reminds me of the old xkcd:



Matt Damon is concerned by the prospect of such an uninformed nutjob having nuclear codes:



Join the club. I gather we're about 5 billion strong.