BuzzFeed’s Matt Stopera (who also took the photos shown below ) collected 22 pictures of people who attended the Ham/Nye debate in Kentucky and identified themselves as creationists.

Stopera asked each of them to write down their “message to people who believe in evolution.” See the link for all the questions (many of them predictable), but I’ve chosen a few examples to post. The sad thing is that nearly all these people are young—the target audience for science educators. It’s not clear whether they’d already seen the debate or not, but, being creationists, that probably wouldn’t have affected their questions.

Read and weep, o brethren:

First, someone who doesn’t know the hominin fossil record:

The very concept of this sort of “purpose” implies God, yet she has no evidence for Him:

Noetics? What does that have to do with evidence?

Answer: because of the laws of physics. (BTW, it’s “there”.)

That’s not how the big bang started, dude! Learn some cosmology!

Attempted humor is not evidence:

This smiling woman needs to learn what a “theory” is. And does she want homeopathy taught in medical schools, astrology in psychology class, and alchemy in the chemistry department?:

Here’s an ebullient God-of-the-Gapper:

Yes, it is amazing, but how can you look at the world and think it was made by an all-loving, all-powerful God? What about the Holocaust, or, for that matter, natural selection?:

If this guy isn’t joking, he needs a biology class, stat!: