What I find interesting is the amount of stuff that’s called *creationist stupidity* that was taught as science at one time.
Examples are vestigial organs, junk DNA, most mutations are harmful, .....
There’s even the issue of frauds like Piltdown Man that evos keep bragging that scientists proved were a fraud, which creationists never believed was authentic in the first place.
Scientists/evos shouldn’t be so quick to disparage creationists for promoting the belief (which they don’t do anyway) of things that were taught as science at one time.
If there is any blame it belongs on the scientists who taught it to a whole generation of kids in public schools as science in the first place. Then they wonder why stuff that scientists have changed their position on is still circulating? It isn’t creationists fault.
Clearly the scientific community is remiss for not getting the word out better.
But then that would entail scientists admitting that they were wrong.....
The creationist politicians (because that’s what the “discussion” is about, politics) make a bunch of false claims about Darwinism etc, with a small leavening of stuff like what you said.
The Darwinists et al make a bunch of false claims about their own beliefs (denying of course that their beliefs *are* beliefs), with a small leavening of the creationist stupidities, which are numerous.
Many people are creationists — they believe in God, and believe that the universe was created — but don’t regard themselves as such because they don’t fit in with this or that flavor of creationism.
For the record, I am myself a creationist because the universe is so obviously a creation.