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.
That’s pretty reasonable. There are a handful of things which prevent me from being a 6K-year-Earth style literal creationist, including Venus which is ballpark for a 6K year age estimate and does not resemble Earth or Mars at all, and the neanderthal which I would GUESS was some sort of a proto-human lord of some previous creation, prior to Adam and Eve. Like I say, without a time machine, all anybody could do with that sort of thing is guess.