As if we don't already regularly do that for any class that studies modern American History. Or whenever the Texas legislature feels like stumping for votes.
Every single person I've ever run into who doesn't understand or accept evolution makes the same mistake Pence does- they have no idea what a Scientific Theory is.
We still have tailbones. Some people are even still born with tails attached to them.
New blood types appeared in AIDS ravaged countries- blood types immune to the disease. A number of people of European ancestry are also immune to the disease because their ancestors survived the black death centuries before.
Sickle cell anemia mutations arose as a defense against malaria.
Peoples that lived in historically non-dairy producing areas didn't develop the ability to break down milk enzymes through adulthood.
There are people walking around with DNA of extinct branches of humanity- the Denisovans and Neanderthals . We know this from analysis of modern genes and the DNA left behind in fossil record.
Evidence of evolution is all around us. If you want to argue that there was some sort of divine "spark" of creation involved, that's fine. Go to town. But to claim that the earth is 6k years old and that man was created as we now know it ignores centuries of archaeological and medical information. It's throwing human history and the sum of human knowledge in the trash can for the sake of religious texts written (and edited countless times for socio-political reasons) by Man.
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