If the long con is to replace the idea of a 'creator' with the randomness of 'evolution', it seems like a lot of time and money invested for not much in the way of results with the ongoing Jurassic Park charade.
Does the belief in the pre-existence of giant lizard creatures automatically null and void everyone's idea of "God"? I mean, do people spend a lot of time thinking about dinosaurs? "Oh, look at these pictures of giant lizards...there must be no God....let's all just be nihilists and have big bang parties." People still gonna believe...
There has to be more to this as a cover story. But I reckon 'evolution' as a backdrop has entanglements with our friends in modern medicine who like to tell stories about DNA and genes as well...