Mediaite reports:
Elon Musk appears to have moved on from Tucker Carlson based on the conservative pundit’s recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast where Carlson rejected Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
In multiple X, formerly Twitter, posts on Monday, Musk responded to messages critical of Carlson. “Yeah,” he wrote in reply to a clip of Carlson rejecting evolution and a user calling Carlson a “zealot.”
Carlson argued on the Joe Rogan Experience that he believes in “adaptation,” but not “evolution.” Asked for his own theory, Carlson said “God created people” and animals.
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Yeah
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 22, 2024
Tucker Carlson went on Joe Rogan and said the theory of evolution has been proven false and supernatural beings in the ocean are killing people
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 21, 2024
I took the same high school biology class he did. I passed.
Tucker Carlson Rejects Theory of Evolution on Rogan Podcast https://t.co/v0XqRLmv6U
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) April 22, 2024
Highlights from the intellectual known as Tucker:
“We’ve kinda given up on the idea of evolution,” he says, dismissing Darwin’s theory for not having” much evidence, followed instead by his much more certain belief that God create humans.
He finishes with: “We understand less… https://t.co/kiqnLkJySn
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Katherine Brodsky (@mysteriouskat) April 22, 2024
Tucker Carlson misunderstands that in everyday speech, “theory” refers to a hunch or a speculation, but in science, it refers to a comprehensive explanation of nature.
Many scientific theories are so well-established that no new evidence is likely to change them.
E.g: evolution pic.twitter.com/cb8tbzOwC0
— Dr. Jonathan N. Stea (@jonathanstea) April 21, 2024
Tucker Carlson: The theory of evolution “is not true.”
This clip highlights (a) the degree to which Tucker is scientifically illiterate (um, totally?) and (b) the depth of his arrogence.
He is deeply & fundementally wrong but states his BS with such conviction…
cc @STWorg… https://t.co/IcbsjJ4YYI
— Timothy Caulfield (@CaulfieldTim) April 21, 2024
NEW – Tucker Carlson talks about aliens on The Joe Rogan Experience: “They’re spiritual entities, they’re supernatural. They’ve been here a long time. And there’s a ton of evidence that they’re under the ocean and under the ground.”
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) April 19, 2024
Tucker with a long diatribe on why he now believes the U.S. should not have bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki and instead used conventional forces which would have resulted in millions more dead and the Soviet Union occupying a large part of Japan. pic.twitter.com/9PQedxQVk9
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 22, 2024