Furious overconfidence does not counter the evidence
Pharyngula 2025-03-04
Here’s another wild creationist claim that just popped up from the YouTube algorithm. It’s a shouting match between a Muslim creationist (Subboor Ahmad) and an individual from the crowd, who is challenged to define evolution. He says “natural selection plus mutation,” which prompts this furious response from Ahmad.
If it’s natural selection plus random mutations, it becomes epigenetics.
What? No it’s not. That’s absurd. It just tells me that Subboor Ahmad knows nothing about evolution.
It also includes a clip of an encounter between Ahmad and Aron Ra, in which Aron correctly points out that drift is the major driver of evolutionary change, and Ahmad blows up in fury and accuses him of being drunk.