I teach high school math and science, and it's fun to meet these doubts head-on. Most students who carry these opinions opposing basic science are surprised to

I teach high school math and science, and it's fun to meet these doubts head-on. Most students who carry these opinions opposing basic science are surprised to find that the ideas they've been opposing make perfect sense when you step away from sensationalism and examine what's actually being claimed. I really enjoy leading students through a discussion of evolution in the context of bacteria. They all get that populations of bacteria develop a resistance to antibiotics over time, in a manner that we can watch play out. We name that 'evolution'. Then we look at the changes in a population of flies, which we can still watch. Then we step out to longer and longer timeframes, and recognize the same process taking place. By the time we get to evolution on the timeframe of millions of years, most students get it.