@rationalchristianfaith, “Logan Paul Cliffe Knechtle: Does The Bible Support Evolution?”

Interviewer: You believe in evolution. You say you believe in evolution.

Interviewee: Yeah.

Interviewer: But isn’t the Bible kind of anti-evolution?

Interviewee: No. No.

Interviewer: Why do some sort of Christians vehemently deny evolution, the theory of evolution?

Interviewee: Because they have a very tough time with the age of the earth. So they’ll say it’s 6,000 years old. And so they’ll really, really push back against a lot of scientific theory. And they are scared of the term evolution oftentimes because they directly connect it with naturalism, where you’re going to have to say there is no God. And what’s so interesting about evolution, if there is no God, then you just go back to we came from a primordial soup. That’s what they believe. That’s what I read in Great State of Connecticut public schools, everywhere in middle school, it says we came from a primordial soup. There is no evidence for that, at all. So how scary is that? You know, Christians always get pegged for the ones, you know, brainwashing their kids with all sorts of different types of doctrine. I think our culture today, you know, the secular culture today is brainwashing kids with primordial soup.

@rationalchristianfaith, “Logan Paul Cliffe Knechtle: Does The Bible Support Evolution?” (2024)

These two are part of an online and evolving Christian echo chamber in which they support their sense of intellectual incursion by the non-religious into their educational systems.

The idea is the equating of non-evolutionary views with creationist views as if on the same footing, empirically. So, for example, the changes over time in educational curricula around biological sciences to become non-theological or theologically neutral.

That is, to simply teach evolution via natural selection as the fact that it is, that’s brainwashing kids. The basis response is relatively straightforward given the superficiality of the critique.

The sciences did not reach the conclusion of evolution via natural selection through the reading of scripture or in an outright rejection of them. Rather, they came to them in a rigorous and systematic hypothesis testing.

Evolution via natural selection won out the day. Creation failed. It’s not much more complicated than that. In fact, the population was so largely Christian at the time of the major debates around evolution via natural selection and the Christian claims to creation lost so thoroughly.

It entered into all biological sciences classrooms as standard. Educators teach evolution, not creationism, based on solid findings and testings of professionals, not assertions of theologians or the religious.

And there doesn’t necessarily need to be a contradiction between evolution and a theistic belief. However, given the fact of evolution, any theistic framework must incorporate evolution via natural selection to be valid.

Otherwise, it’s merely an example of the brainwashing of children of Christian parents with ideas about creation. All of these videos, or most that I have seen, seem like a psychological projection to protect members from integrating the facts of evolution into their worldview.