(January 13, 2014 at 8:03 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(January 13, 2014 at 7:49 pm)Get me Rex Kramer! Wrote: People don't want to subscribe to evolution because they think it's intellectually poisonous, not because they reject actual science: they don't know the actual science.
This above pretty much captures my take on the matter. People aren't stupid, per se, they're ignorant, and remain so because - for one reason or another - they are deeply invested in the "truth" that they have come to know and understand.
Here's something a pretty smart guy had to say along similar lines:
Utterly agreed with Mr Sagan!