" I am not able to quantify how much if any, amounts to "conspiracy", how much to the bias in education, how much to peer pressure, or fear of job loss or sidelining from advancement. certainly I believe there must be an element of deception/delusion involved, for educated people to believe unproven and impossible things."

You know Pete, that is a nasty little sentence and one day I hope you will come to understand how insulting that is to genuinely kind and thoughtful people whose life's work is the acquisition of knowledge and attainment of understanding about us, our universe and our place within it, not for personal gain but the common good.


"over all is a spiritual blindness, I believe. the devil "is a liar, and the father of it" john 8v44"

And creationists have been taken in by him utterly, robbed of reason and the ability to interpret or understand the world with any degree of nuance or wonder. He's made them into absolutist, myopic and unquestioning purveyors of lies, misinformation and assassinators of character. He's persuaded them their God-given gifts of intelligence and curiosity are in fact not the tools of enlightenment and knowledge, but agents of self-deception. Creationists are malleable, gullible and nasty extremists, and if there is a devil he's conned you by involving your own wilful ignorance.