Couldn’t have put it better myself.
There’s a reason why I make such a lot of noise about science in the workplace. It’s because it’s the workplace that hammers home to you that you can’t just fob off scientific findings that you don’t like. In the workplace, you are put into situations where you have to put scientific principles and practices into operation, where you have to get those principles and practices right, and where getting them wrong has consequences for which you should expect to be held personally responsible.
You don’t face this if you’re just approaching science from a philosophical point of view. You don’t face it if you’re being spoon-fed scientific understanding from YouTube videos and apologetics books. You don’t face it in science classes at school. You can even complete a science degree without fully appreciating it. And it doesn’t happen in every workplace. You don’t face it to the same extent in sales and marketing, or in pastoral work, for example. But there are many, many careers in which you do. Engineering. Aviation. Medicine. Information technology. Oil exploration. And so on and so forth. In some cases, the consequences in question can be severe. As in, companies going bankrupt, or people getting killed.
Once you’ve had to interact with science at that kind of level, you simply cannot afford to tolerate bad arguments about science. Rejecting scientific findings for philosophical reasons is simply not an option. You simply cannot afford to take anyone seriously if they are taking such a line. To do so would be unprofessional, irresponsible, reckless and possibly even criminally negligent.
For this reason, anyone who views the role of science in the workplace with derision or contempt, whether evolution is involved or not, should not expect to be taken seriously. Not by me, not by you, nor by anyone else for that matter. Such people have crossed a rubicon at which it is clear that they are no longer approaching these discussions in good faith.