(June 22, 2024 at 12:48 am)Ferrocyanide Wrote: Millions of them had trouble accepting that they were just apes.
They still do have a problem accepting that we are in fact apes. That's because in the Western world it strikes directly at the origin story. Gould's no overlapping magisteria means nothings to them, first, because they've never heard of it, and second, because even if they have, as believers they see only one magisteria that is overarching, mostly. There are believers who accept evolution, but they are much quieter than the deniers.