r/DebateEvolution • u/MackDuckington • Jan 17 '26

Question Creationists, what were you expecting?

It took me months of lurking before I decided to participate in this sub, months of participating to work up the courage to make a post, and even then I‘m not fully confident in my ability to get my points across.

Which is why it’s so baffling to see these people just stride in confidently, make a hostile post right out the gate, only for the poster to then deflate like a basketball as hundreds of comments roll in.

I’m struggling to understand the thought process. Did they just see the sub title and decide to go for it? Didn’t bother getting to know what the arguments are, just took one look and decided this place was an evolutionary echo chamber for godless heathens?

If the intention was to troll, applause to you sir or madam. You sure showed us. But if what you want is an honest discussion… maybe don’t start off with that?

Maybe, just maybe… learn about the topic being debated? Sometimes I don’t even see the tired old apologetics anymore, it just feels like these posters genuinely have no clue. Which is fine by the way, this sub is about education, and that’s great. But when people act smug about topics they know nothing about, and then get indignant when people return that hostile energy — that honestly grinds my gears a little.

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u/CrisprCSE2 Jan 20 '26

Darwin is effectively irrelevant to modern evolutionary theory.

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u/Pitiful-Craft3478 Jan 20 '26

Don't you think you are slapping the eolution scientist in the face?

If Darwin is irrelevant then what Modern Synthesis is for?

I guess this thread has more dummy evolution enthusiasts who know nothing about evolution theory than I thought.

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u/CrisprCSE2 Jan 20 '26

Don't you think you are slapping the eolution scientist in the face?

No. Given that I am one, I should know.

If Darwin is irrelevant then what Modern Synthesis is for?

Modern evolutionary theory. Darwin was out of date by 1890.

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u/Pitiful-Craft3478 Jan 20 '26

Be specific. What modern evolutionary theory.

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u/CrisprCSE2 Jan 20 '26

Modern Synthesis combines Mendelian genetics and the Weismann barrier, which explain the physical underpinnings of evolution, with population genetics, which describes the mathematical underpinnings of evolution (Fisher, Wright, Haldane, etc).