If you were to say "I really don't understand gravity." You would be among the best physicists in world, but evolution is found everywhere. In fact when a new technological discovery like genetics comes about it proves evolution to be even more accurate than before.
So keep your talking snake hypothesis, I'll take science.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.