>>Most of these people have had science in high school or college.
However, if someone tells them that it is all nonsense and the world was created 5000 years ago, they believe it. One has to wonder about the quality of science education in this country.<<

One professor gathered his most intelligent pupils once and had an ordinary street magician come in and do a few tricks and then the students were to write the opinions about what they observed. About a quarter of them were convinced this man had some kind of special powers because he did a few tricks that I myself do at getherings to amuse people and I'm no magician.