Thread by @PnictogenHorses

I'd hazard to guess that if there's any one fallacy about evolution that right-wing cranks are likely to cling to (whether they're aware they're doing it), it's likely to be the fallacy that evolution is somehow *done*. to the @EPoe187 crowd, evolution is *finished*.

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evolution is in fact a continuous process. it involves not merely a single population of organisms on Earth but *all* of them, together. for a key feature of evolution is co-evolution: species evolve in contact with each other, and they affect each others' evolution.

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corvids, for example, have co-evolved with humanity. they've adapted superbly to sharing a niche with human beings, and they're slowly learning how to use human technology for themselves. evolution isn't a matter of winning and losing species—but not to @pegobry &c.

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it's pretty clear to me that racist dunces like @charlesmurray and @EPoe187 and @SwipeWright (and @NateSilver538 and @mtaibbi and @mattyglesias and *so* many other Western professionals) think that evolution's a game that's been played, and humanity won, and that's it.

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now there's nothing left but to polish the Evolution™ trophy with @OfficialSAT scores, and squirt out pedigreed babies like @SimoneHCollins and @elonmusk want to do.

only profound scientific illiteracy can possibly explain how these racist clowns view "evolution".

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we can't ignore just how utterly and abysmally *stupid* Western society has been kept on the subject of evolutionary biology—guess why? because of right-wing Christian fanatics of all stripes. @MattWalshBlog, @DouthatNYT, @DavidAFrench, @PastorMark, they've all hurt us.

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they've been *terrified* of evolutionary biology—so terrified that they found people like @charlesmurray and @SwipeWright to be substitute biologists for them. *tame* "scientists", ideologically correct "academics" who ratified all the usual stale Christian bigotries.

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if you want to know how @MattWalshBlog &c. can be so terminally irrational as to think that their Christian fanaticism was somehow Science™, you can start with the fact that Christian fanatics hate evolutionary theory and deliberately make a complete mess out of it.

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they want to think evolution's yielded a *winner*! when, in fact, evolution _continues_, and doesn't particularly care about humanity, because evolution is a *scientific process* and not a source of moral judgments, the way the @EPoe187 / @NateSilver538 crowd think.

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these clowns think their penis-policing is "biology"—as if scientific realities needed *policing* at any time. @RonDeSantisFL might as well be sending @OrlandoPolice thugs round to enforce the Navier-Stokes Equation at gunpoint. their transphobic crusade is THAT stupid.

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and I'd really like to know just why Western #journalism ever fell for such a transparent farce. @mtaibbi, could you maybe point me towards an actual journalist? or @bariweiss? presumably you still bully real journalists, and could supply some names.

~Mona Drafter of Pnictogen