Mike Huckabee is happy to tell you he’s a former Southern Baptist pastor-who also believes in creationism-but just don’t ask him about evolution.

So says the AP, which reports that Huckabee got uncharacteristically annoyed at a question on whether evolution shoudl be taught in schools:

Huckabee – who raised his hand at a debate last May when asked which candidates disbelieved the theory of evolution – asked this time why there is such a fascination with his beliefs.

“I believe God created the heavens and the Earth,” he said at a news conference with Iowa pastors who murmured, “Amen.”

“I wasn’t there when he did it, so how he did it, I don’t know,” Huckabee said.

But he expressed frustration that he is asked about it so often, arguing with the questioner that it ultimately doesn’t matter what his personal views are.

“That’s an irrelevant question to ask me – I’m happy to answer what I believe, but what I believe is not what’s going to be taught in 50 different states,” Huckabee said. “Education is a state function. The more state it is, and the less federal it is, the better off we are.”

He also refused to take the bait on whether Mitt Romney (a Mormon) can be called a Christian:

“I’m just not going to go off into evaluating other people’s doctrines and faiths. I think that is absolutely not a role for a president,” the former Arkansas governor said.