A Close Call

There is a long history of  unreasonable  things  being said and written about evolution.  Most have come from people who believed the Biblical story of creation was true.  These days such people are often called young earth creationists, because of their beliefs that the earth and the cosmos are only about six thousand years old and that present day humans and animals have lived on the earth since its creation. Lately there have been examples of a different sort from a different source -  “progressive”   people who deny the evolutionary bifurcation into  two sexes and claim that gender is a social construct rather than a  genetically determined fact.  It is interesting to speculate on which group is behaving more irrationally. On the surface it would seem to be  the new earthers,  since they deny that evolution happened at all while the advocates of gender fluidity deny only that it turned out as it really did.  However the things the young earthers are denying are not immediately obvious and require study and reflection  to understand,  while the things the  gender fluid people denying  are  plainly observable in the ordinary course of life.  It would be a close call as to which bunch is being less rational, and one would hate to have to live on the difference.