“Evolution” has everything to do with politics.
The lie they are pushing is that they are pro-science and Republicans are anti-science.
You have to understand their meme before you can push back appropriately.
Governor Jindal graduated from college with two degrees and a 4.0 (I think).
However, they are still seeking to tar and feather him with the anti-science/anti-evolution label.
See the ‘fight’ over the Louisiana Science Education Act.
Now the problem is, none of the politicians in Louisiana give a darn. Just about 1/2 (large number not 1/2) of the dem and reps ‘authored’ the bill. It was passed in 2007 or 2008. There were only 3 no votes against the bill.
However, For the last 4 years, the head of the democrats in the Senate has sought to repeal the law.
She can’t even carry the dems on the committee. They have only managed to get one committee vote every year for four years (well, perhaps two one year).
But they don’t care. That is not their purpose.
Their purpose is to tar Jindal as being the force behind the law. Now other than signing a bill that passed by veto proof margins should he reject it into law, there is scant evidence that Jindal was involved in the law in any fashion.
Yet they use this law to run the line that Gov. Jindal is pro-creationist and anti-evolution.
Dig a little deeper into the education debate (where teachers add texts or challenging viewpoints to science classes).
The Left plays up that this is all about “creationism” but their big concern is “climate change deniers”.
The kids are being exposed to the errors of the doomsday predictions (we are far behind the warming trends that were projected just as the oceans were not dead at the turn of the century as predicted in the 1980s). Snow still falls in England (the doomsayers said kids today would never see snowfall).