"It's a non-starter in the scientific community," says Eugenie C. Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, which tracks the creationist movement. "But people in history, or social studies, or philosophy of science, who don't know that the science is bad, could very well be propagating this in the academic community. So there may be a lot of university graduates coming out of school thinking evolution is, quote, a theory in crisis."
About sums it up.
If the understanding has to be that "strong" I'd say that's a problem with the theory itself. If academics have to struggle to understand it, it must look like swiss cheese.
And you guys laugh at us because we believe in God.