Carson reminds me of Chaunce the Gardener.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgGvd1UPZ88
"In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again."
"The other thing is, people don't realize, he's God. If he wanted to create an earth that was billions of years old, he could do it."
Who is who?
Folks read wisdom into the quiet, gappy delivery. Looks to me like the gaps are where the vacancy is.
eg for historical parallels, you get slavery and Nazism and little else. Good versus evil.
Then there's his religion, which divides the world between good and evil. Again.
Probably adores Star Wars.
Kinda narrow reference set.
It's surprising to find a man so expert at one thing (surgery) appear to have so little knowledge otherwise. Looks like he baked all of his studying into one realm.