People can be ignorant without being stupid.....Ignorance is often intentional. "My mind's made up....don't confuse me with facts."

*IF* someone is emotionally/psychologically committed to a religious belief that 'everything was created in 6 days at some specified time', then they must fit all data into that model. There are religious models which do a very clever job of doing that Gerrymandering of fact & logic. They take some assumptions and construct a position that is internally consistent. It makes folks FEEL good to believe that there IS a simple, basic answer to how it all happened.. "God did it" It is hard work to escape from ANY mindset passed down for generations and believed by your entire social group.

America has a high % of folks who grew up with such beliefs, and is a relatively young nation. We will 'probably' change gradually as (and if) education begins to get thru the superstitutions we inherited.


(I just watched 3 programs on Darwin/Evolution last night where detailed, modern PROOF of evolution was demonstrated. Too bad they are not required for all students from 4th grade to college.)