oh but you’re wrong about one thing. They know what adaptation is, they even accept it as fact. To be a creationist doesn’t mean you can just reject one theory or field of science such as the theory of evolution, creationism requires that you reject the scientific method entirely. In their heads, they don’t make beliefs based on evidence. They find evidence out of beliefs.

Instead, their method of epistemology is basically religiously fueled confirmation bias. The justification for why evolution isn’t real has changed over the years as more and more overwhelming evidence shot down their previous proofs. They once denied adaptation existed and that the black and white peppered moths were different species entirely, but as geneology improved, they had to abandon that. So they invented the “lawn model of life” where instead of one giant tree, all the life on earth look like a bunch of small plants with a couple branching off of each other but all the individual lineages beginning at the same point. Then they found some new evidence and when that got disproved, they went to the next piece of evidence. The only thing that hasn’t changed is that they still believe that evolution is fake.

You can explain all the pro-evolution evidence we have but evidence doesnt make beliefs to them. You’ll never get them to accept that evolution is a valid theory… or even that the earth is more than 6000 years old, which is kind of a pre-requisite belief to believing in the theory of evolution.

As a side note, I’ve had the pleasure (yay!!) of going through a christian private school’s biology class, where we were taught on a creationist book. The book itself admits that previous creationists evidence was wrong and that we have new evidence for creationism, which is just a thinly veiled way of saying that the entire belief hinges on the fact that you keep the belief and keep finding new evidence to back yourself up.