They know that even their best lectures are incredibly dry—dating some rocks and fossils to the irretrievable depths of millions of years ago leaves much to desire. Talk about geological activity alone and you have a dry conversation, but add the task of debasing a Creationist's argument and suddenly the topic has an aura of incredible importance ... and the Evolutionist is given the task of selling how much this stuff really rocks his world. And they must really sell the "Over a period of millenia! ... Millenia!" with their emphasis.
Imagining a fish-frog mutating functional legs leaves a pretty negative taste for an audience. Then you're shown a conceptual interpretation of how these things looked and moved ... and you're left wanting to kill the thing rather than give it another million years to see what it will mutate into.
Tell the Evolutionist about Sin and suddenly they become a hot-bed of pure emotion. The calm intellectual fades into the snide sophist, periodically merging with their own rage. The intellectual veil becomes a side show to what the audience and lecturer really came for—mockery.
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