In my long experience, they are. They ridicule a "cartoon version" of evolution, not the real theory. I've had to correct literally *hundreds* of misconceptions that creationists on FR *alone* have had about evolution.
The fact is, the whole country has had this crammed down it's throat in public school for decades.
Then they need to do a better job, because most people don't really know how it works or what the evidence for it might be.
Evolution is being rejected because of what people know about it, not because of what we don't know.
Actually, in my experience evolution is being rejected because the creationists keep telling so many outrageous lies about it. See my profile page for a few hundred examples just from FR alone.
Let's try a test -- tell me why what you know about evolution that has caused *you* to reject it (presuming you have).
That's good. Very good.
I'm not going too far into this argument, simply because crevo debates are not my 'hobby', so to speak.
But here's a big problem I have with it- no empirical evidence.
Never has it been demonstrated that an isolated population will mutate into a different species that can no longer breed with the larger population. Sure, organisms adapt and change behaviors and characteristics, but on a cellular level, the proliferation of species is not explained by mutation.
Even a demonstration of how this works with simple life forms would suffice. With all the gene splicing that's coming along, I would think that evolutionists could produce results in the lab that support their position.