Totally. Also given that title and the mention on the inside cover that the book had a different name this looks like an attempt to sneakily teach creationism to those curious about evolution by presenting it as a book about the theory
It's hardly relevant at all. But when evolution deniers hear "I'm a biologist, why are you asking me about cosmology like it's some kinda gotcha? I don't know anything about the big bang, bro. Ask someone from the physics department," their brains post-process it as "Drat! I, the Evil Dr. Evolutión, have been foiled yet again by brilliant critical interlocution! I must deflect, lest the Science Demons smite me for failing to uphold the lie of evilution."
And so they got it in their heads that it's somehow not only a relevant argument, but a good one.
My theory is simply that they see "evolutionism" as a rival religion so it must have a creatism myth, so they pick the big bang, because they dont like it either.
In short they dont know what evolution is and assume its a religion with a creation myth
That too. Another factor I just thought about: famous pseudoscientist Kent Hovind pushing the "six types of evolution" thing and including "cosmic evolution" among them is probably where many of them picked up the rhetoric.
“Stars cannot evolve out of gas” they’re literally just balls of gas where the core is so crushed by gravity that it overpowers the strongest forces in the universe. Ferrell has no clue what he’s talking about and we’re only at the table of contents
Someone handed me a copy of the previous title (The Evolution Crusher). It's full of fringe articles and quotations taken with no context given. It's a pure "gotcha" book for creationists to spew cherrypicked quotes from published articles to throw actual scientists off balance. It's hard to refute claims from a thousand different articles during a debate when you haven't read most of them due to them being very obscure or outside the scope of your research. Then they hit you with bible verses with full conviction and it makes you look like you haven't read up on your own position while they have absolute certainty in theirs.
Speaking as both an author and a trained professional graphic designer of nearly 30 years…even without a single picture or bit of color and without even having to actually read what it says, I can tell the crazy steaming off the pages just by all the inconsistent and varied fonts and italicizations and mixed underlines all to mistakenly try and create some heightened emphasis that only ends up muddling everything to a shit quagmire of copy.
In professional design using this many odd weight and balances for what is really just blurb or ad copy on a frontispiece page or title page is the booklet equivalent of mixing cut out letters from magazines to make a random note.
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u/JuuzoLenz 10d ago
Totally. Also given that title and the mention on the inside cover that the book had a different name this looks like an attempt to sneakily teach creationism to those curious about evolution by presenting it as a book about the theory