The stupid in that `Debunking Evolution’ link is stunning. It’s denser than neutronium. It warps not only minds, but space itself.

“If evolution were real, we’d see animals with all sorts of useless, half-made parts.” An eye without any eyelid, perhaps? (the pits of a pit viper) A hand without an opposable thumb, perhaps? (Various apes.) Legs that don’t even extend outside the body? (Whales). Tails likewise? (Humans). The list is endless. As to parts that actually show up in the animal, they always had their current use. The wings of the earliest birds, or the latest pre-birds, however you want to put it, would have had their use in helping the animal keep its balance and make fast turns while running. A roadrunner has wings, damnit! Feathers serve as insulation, so flight feathers aren’t a great leap starting from nowhere. A batch of extended, interlocking feathers on a running bird could have served to help the bird net flying insects.

The earliest bats didn’t have bat sonar. They just had to hunt by flying through dense clouds of insects at dusk. Or maybe it wasn’t hunting. Flying to this and that fruit, by smell, dodging trees by some trick of ordinary good hearing, might be safer than dodging hawks by day.

(Today, there are blind men who can walk a city street that is new to them and detect parked cars and macro-obstacles such as trash cans, by clicking their tongues and listening closely to how the sound reflects.) In the land of the deaf, the one-eared bat is King…evolution doesn’t need Great Leaps Forward to get rich slowly.

Unfortunately, stupid arguments are often appealing arguments. Correct logic requires such rigorous attention to detail. It’s much harder to make a splash—-you have to trump Newton or something to do that, and how many Einsteins do we get? But a stupid argument immediately stirs the pot. People notice. If it’s stupid, mendacious, and superficially appealing, camp followers materialize. They can win their 15 minutes of vicarious fame by showing off their superior ignorance, as though it were knowledge. This is much easier than actually learning some biology.

The struggle with inanity is endless and unwinnable. It’s a sisyphean task. But it’s losable. Shirk thy duty and let that rock get all the way down the hill, and it’s tough to get it out of the muck and back on the slope.