Culture matters but isn’t everything

People believe in evolution, just not for humans.

Yep. Something Iโ€™ve been talking about for years.

The term โ€œliberal Creationismโ€ refers to the fact that on the cultural Left there is a strong belief in the concept of evolution on the whole, but in the case of human beings biological evolutionary processes are seen as marginal in comparison to culture. In other words, natural selection and adaptation explain the diversity around us in the animal and plant world, but can tell us little about human beings.

Iโ€™ve had liberals tell me fantastically ridiculous things such as that humans have no characteristics attractive to the opposite sex, and certainly none that evolved to be that way, and that evolution hasnโ€™t happened to human in tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, and that absolutely every human behavior can be explained by culture and culture alone. And more I am sure that I canโ€™t recall now.

Liberal creationism is a bit better than the conservative kind, but no less stupid, really.