The LA Times reports:
Palin Claimed Dinosaurs And People Coexisted

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 -- the teacher said.

After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a
commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in
June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young
mayor about her religious beliefs.

Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same
time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and
tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen
pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who
teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has
regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political
blog, called Progressive Alaska.

The idea of a "young Earth" -- that God created the Earth about 6,000
years ago, and dinosaurs and humans coexisted early on -- is a popular
strain of creationism.

Though in her race for governor she called for faith-based
"intelligent design" to be taught along with evolution in Alaska's
schools, Gov. Palin has not sought to require it, state educators say.

In a widely-circulated interview, Matt Damon said of Palin, "I need to
know if she really think that dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago. I
want to know that, I really do. Because she's gonna have the nuclear
codes."