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Saying liberals/conservatives crawled out of the ocean says nothing negative about Creationism or negates it in any way.

The image is trying to show how absurd the idea is--of crawling out of the ocean as fully formed liberals or conservatives, or liberals and conservatives in the making. Clearly, the idea of primodrial slime being liberal or conservative is absurd, right? I exaggerated what the article was saying for comedic effect, but there's no knock on Creationists or Biblical beliefs that I can see.

If anything, the title line could be read as poking fun at Darwinists who would fancy that politcal philosophies started with apes (granted, that's not what the article said, just that the "origins" of those two ways of thinking were there) and "liberals/conservatives crawled out of the ocean" could be read as being in tacet agreement with Creationism by process-of-elimination, because the exaggeration aims to make the Darwinistic caveman liberals and conservatives seem highly implausible by using humorous situations, like liberal cavemen wanting to abolish billy clubs.

Leaving Creationism unscathed.

May I suggest that perhaps your anger is misplaced? It seems like you are upset with science because evolution is usually the unassumed starting point of many things they investigate. My piece is poking fun at science by adopting an exaggerated stance towards what they said about liberal and conservative "genes."

Mike