Equi nailed this quite some time ago. He pointed out that it isn't so much evolution deniers not understanding the theory as it is not even knowing what evolution is.
You can see it in some of their arguments, plain as a pikestaff. Questions like, 'If we evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?' and 'Dogs don't give birth to cats, so evolution is false.' These people are so far off base in their critiques of evolution that they aren't even wrong.
It isn't that they don't grasp the subtler niceties of biological evolution - they're arguing against what evolution isn't. If there's ever a scarecrow shortage, these people are going to make a fecking fortune (rim shot).
Boru
You can see it in some of their arguments, plain as a pikestaff. Questions like, 'If we evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?' and 'Dogs don't give birth to cats, so evolution is false.' These people are so far off base in their critiques of evolution that they aren't even wrong.
It isn't that they don't grasp the subtler niceties of biological evolution - they're arguing against what evolution isn't. If there's ever a scarecrow shortage, these people are going to make a fecking fortune (rim shot).
Boru
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