[DrPhil]

Right. This is both an interdisciplinary and layperson debate. Showing people images of animals that have changed over time should be convincing but people either ignore the evidence or believe there is another explanation for the evidence than evolution.

This isn't shocking because the average person around the world believes whatever they believe regardless. That includes human dynamics such as gender, sexual orientation, and race and ethnicity. I talk to people everyday whose opinions contrast any type of social, biological, and other types of evidence. At the same time, the billions of people in the world aren't obligated to believe everything scientists say and that's the same for all of our fields of expertise in which our field considers some things non-debatable. There are scientists who debate with each other, publish challenging research, and go to the media to announce "scientists may have been wrong all along." The key is to discuss things like evolution while also acknowledging there is some subjectivity and researcher bias.