Evobabble

Evobabble is a term used by some creationists to refer to scientific language and terms that they don't understand. This includes any discussion of transitional fossils, rock strata, and radiometric dating methods. This is most likely because very few creationists have any post-homeschooling education (not counting diploma mills).[note 1] Unfortunately, most creationists do not understand that the term "evobabble" epitomizes their ignorance.[1]

The divine comedy Creationism

Running gags

Biblical literalism Young/Old Earth Intelligent design Creation scientists

Jokes aside

Carbon dating List of transitional forms Paleontology Plate tectonics

Blooper reel

Evidence for God's existence Louisiana Academic Freedom Act Lunar dust Paluxy River tracks v - t - e

Pseudoscientific use of evolution

Evobabble can be used in another sense, though, parallel to psychobabble. Some people, even those who are apparently otherwise sane and intelligent, pick up poorly-understood concepts of evolutionary science and swing them about wildly in defense of this or that position. When you read a man arguing online that his three girlfriends, who have just caught on to each others' existence, should be understanding about and amenable to the arrangement because he is a male human and male humans are evolutionarily predisposed to mate with as many females as possible, you are reading evobabble in this second sense.

See also

• Evolutionism -- another snarl word

Notes

1. Yes, Kent Hovind, we're talking to you.

References

1. An example of the usage of evobabble, oddly not about Evolution, but there you go

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