an incurious bigot with a blinkered worldview
Yeah, that about sums it up. He has to go for the low-hanging fruit to shine intelectually. This is why he built his entire career on dunking on young earth creationists, it's something where he can wield his entire academic expertise against people who've built their view of evolution by walking backwards from the assumption that the biblical measurements for Noah's Ark must be taken literally.
So let's see what's going on here
"Is a lion a type of dragon?"
"YES!"
what the actual fuck
The Wunderwaffen will turn around the war any day now