That video gets to the heart of the reason (can't remember how to embed, so if somebody else wants to, then great, more people will watch it.)
The reason evolution has a hard time getting traction in some countries is strictly a religious one. There are no shortage of graphs showing the correlation between a nation's religiousity and its acceptance of evolution. But evidence is evidence, and sooner or later it becomes undeniable to all except the most delusional. So as more science popularizers put forth the case for evolution and show all of the evidence in its favor, how do fundementalist religious people get around the uncomfortable fact that it's becoming more and more apparent that evolution is true?
By renaming it. Evolution is a no no, but variation driven by natural selection to the point of generating new species over a successive number of generations? Well of course that happens. The above video points to Kent Hovind's new views of evol....variation within a "kind," but even the society has taken the same approach. Their latest anti-evolution magazines (which are a few years old now) perform the exact same side step. Stating that "adaptation" (not natural selection) can produce variation (not evolution) that may even lead to reproductive barriers (not speciation), but the bible says all things were made according to their kind, but the bible doesn't state what a kind specifically is...soo.....yeah they just leave it at that.
Creationists so link the theory of evolution with the destruction of their biblical mythology that they can't possibly accept it, but are perfectly willing to accept every aspect of it leading right into a grey fuzzy area where the bible isn't specific about exactly what god made, but he totally did it. Which sounds an awful lot like liberal christians version of evolution. So really creationists are gradually beginning to admit that evolution is true, they just can't call it evolution because that's what godless heathens believe in. Ironically the biggest thing that creationists object to is abiogenesis, which isn't even a part of the theory of evolution. So they will just call it "variation" for now. Give it some time and we'll just start slipping "evolution" into their vocabulary.
