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As an analogy, have you argued with an anti-vaxxer? They will tell you stories of nurses or doctors who were given only the briefest of introductions to the technology of vaccinations. If you asked your general practitioner how they work, they might not be able to explain it in detail. So, all sorts of medical advancements and day to day medical work continues along just fine without that knowledge, yet if vaccines aren’t doing what they say they are, that means a lot of other things are wrong. Not a foundational fact like evolution, but the same idea that you don’t need to know everything to use something. Anti-vaxxers exploit this division of labor (or knowledge in this case) and call it ignorance and then insert a whole new set of knowledge (lies). By pointing out the person giving the shot doesn’t have the knowledge, they claim they have found a lie that they are now fixing.

The Taliban has accomplished the same thing in recruiting people to their Caliphates. I think that’s a pretty good model for what would result. If I’m in my 20’s and I don’t know anyone who knows anything about evolution except some old people and those old people seem to have some control over my life and I don’t like what their doing, I would be tempted to follow the guy who says he has the answers, especially if he appears to be bringing clean water and basic infrastructure to my village.