How I Search For Understanding: An Apology

Scott Adams has posted another highly inflammatory post — this time claiming
that
popular evidence for evolution is bullshit. I’m no longer surprised by these pieces of his, but I have figured
something out. He’s playing games with his readers by creating incendiary
titles that don’t match his post content.

His post is titled, “Fossils — Still Bullshit”. Ok, now he’s got our
attention. Then he goes on to say that he’s NOT claiming any of the
following:

1. Evolution isn’t a scientific fact.

2. All evidence for evolution is false.

3. God created the earth.

His game is simple — create a title that will rile people up because it
indicates an extraordinarily weak argument is going to follow,
and then proceed to point out how that’s not actually what he was
saying.

It’s a win-win for him. When someone comes back and says, “Eh, fossils are
real, the evidence is real, you’re wrong.”, he just says, “You’re stupid. I
already pointed out that my title was incorrect within my post.”

Great. You win again, Scott. 
You tricked people into believing for a second that you didn’t believe in
evolution. But all you actually
said was that scientific evidence for evolution (which you admit is
completely strong) is so complex that it’s difficult to dumb down for
laymen, and that in an attempt to reduce its complexity it gets
mangled.

I think it’s a great point, but must he package it as an anti-evolution
argument in order to make people react so strongly? I’m aware of the whole
“tainment” concept, but at some point the style can become too similar to
trolling. Scott is unbelievably awesome without having to resort to such tactics.: