My MIL, now retired, was a biology professor at Judson University, a Christian college in Elgin, Illinois. She was uncompromising in teaching up to date evolutionary theory and insisted her students learn science regardless of personal beliefs. (“This is the science as currently understood. If your personal belief conflicts with this, that’s for you to reconcile, not me.”) She has more than a few fun stories about dealing with home schooled fundie kids. I often wonder how much the biology department declined after she retired, or more accurately, moved out of IL as she still had some influence there as long as she lived in the area.
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Oh, their crocoduck? LOL. That’s an even more unintentionally hilarious update to the old chestnut, “well, until I see a cat give birth to a dog, evolution is fake news!” kind of thing. Or the “why are there still monkeys?!!!” JAQ thing the creationists think is so very clever, but isn’t even remotely close to getting anything right.
When I’ve watched their clips, I keep having to remind myself, “this is NOT The Onion’s take on creationists, this is what they really think and they took time to actually make these videos”. I guess it’s why Poe’s Law exists in the first place.
When talking to certain creationists I have the pleasure of knowing IRL, I take pains to use the word “evolved” when talking about things like new strains of Covid, by the way. Nearly all of them are down for the usual nexus of nonsense around Covid - it originated in a Wuhan lab, it’s a “plandemic”, masks don’t work, the vaccine is the NWO’s plan to getchoo and they don’t work, either, Joe promised us no one would ever get the virus if they got the vaccine and so on - the usual crank magnetism at work. But I’m hoping to plant that seed at least for evolution - maybe it might grow into some kind of understanding.
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