I (27F) had a few casual hookups in my early twenties, usually with guys from dating apps, maybe a couple times a year. Always sober, used protection, shared my location. I never expected to see these people again, and honestly, I don’t remember most of their names.

Let’s call this guy Kevin. We were both in our early twenties. I think he was maybe a year or two younger than me? We started talking that day, mostly just dirty talk and boundary-setting. Around 11pm, I drove to his house. He had roommates, so we went straight to his room. It was weirdly dark. No overhead light, no lamps, just two big windows lit by streetlights. It smelled aggressively like Febreze. But it was very tidy, so I shrugged it off.

We got to it pretty fast, had decent sex, and were lying next to each other afterward, chatting. Kevin starts bringing up kind of intense conversation topics for a hook up, like “what’s the meaning of life” and “do you think there’s a god” kind of stuff. But I love a late-night existential ramble, so I went with it. We were having fun, mostly agreeing, going back and forth equally. Low-stakes, right?

Then he asks if I believe in evolution... He almost seemed nervous, and it felt like he'd been waiting the entire conversation to ask me this single question.

I said "Well yeah, of course." We’d just spent 20 minutes talking about science, the universe, logic. Evolution fits right in.

He asks me why. I explain my understanding of evolution theory. He says something like "Yeah, but it's just a theory. Personally, I don't believe in evolution."

I let out a snort and a chuckle and say, "Yeah, so is gravity. What do you believe in then?" He seems deeply offended, and says "You know, it's really rude to laugh at someone's beliefs."

And then he answers the question... and it's just evolution. He just described evolution back to me again. Used synonyms for processes I described, declared differences between his theory and evolution that are just objectively the same thing, and kind of tried to sound like he'd come up with all this all in his own.

I'm smirking at him through a lot of it, and trying so hard not to laugh. It was like someone denying the existence of cake and then describing “fluffy, baked sugar bread with frosting” as their favorite dessert.

He starts going off about how disrespectful I’m being, like a full-on tirade. I realize saying anything else is just going to make it worse. It's gotta be 1am at this point so I just said "yeah I don't think this is going to work." and left.

I feel like I'm writing this now just because even so many years later, a part of me is just still stuck on like logically, yes, it's rude to laugh at someone's beliefs, but the context seems important? Was it really that bad?

He blocked me and unmatched me after I left.

AITAH?