Why do Creationists (and a lot of religious people) love denial?

Metaphorically speaking.
If you believed something was white,
but it was proven to you beyond a doubt that is was black,
how does your head still allow you to believe it's white?

because they read in a book that it's white!

There are four lights!

/Picard

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That's because we are looking at a negative where white is black and black is white. It's just like looking at this forum I see white yet there isn't any white dots on a LCD screen only blue,green and red. ( of course the light behind the screen is white except when there's no power)
Also in a way a LCD monitor is a negative to a CRT monitor. CRT adds voltage to a point on the screen to glow red,blue, green together to make white while a LCD adds power to block light from shining through those dots to make them dark.

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Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth:..."

Romans 3:3-4 "For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar;"

God says it's white.

Are you in denial that this thread contributes absolutely nothing whatsoever?

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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the god who endowed us with logic and reason intended us to forgo their use." -Galileo Galilei

They don't love denial. They love their closely-held religious beliefs. Denial is part of the necessary package to rationalize those beliefs.

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If you genuinely believe it is white you go to heaven, if not you go to hell if the white believers are right, or get nothing at all if they aren't, either way there is no point in believing it is black.

After ten years I got fed up with pretending it was white

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…he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood,
and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him. - Abraham Lincoln

Doubt is the greatest thing there is, not certainty. For example, no-one ever killed someone because they were not sure about something. Plenty have killed because they were sure.

Faith is the certainty of things not seen - in other words jumping to conclusions. - Jon McKenney

Because DeNile is a river in Egypt.

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“The biblical story of the perfect and finished creation from which human beings fell into sin is pre-Darwinian mythology and post-Darwinian nonsense." -Bishop John Shelby Spong

"It is not the obligation of the State to reconcile various faiths with reality. Do it yourself." -Atomweaver

"We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one understands anything at all about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster."
- Carl Sagan (Demon Haunted World)

Once you have committed an act of cruelty, or dishonesty, or lechery, or public jackassery, you have to justify it to yourself, by telling yourself "my victim deserved cruelty", or "I was justified, it should have been mine, I needed it", or "I am weak and besides everyone does it", or "wisdom of this world is foolishness so the foolishness of the world must be wisdom".

It is the self-justification, the denial, that is always the greater sin because it precludes repentance and reform.

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"A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition." - Jose Bergamin

"You can't trust an honest man." --- Anonymous

"He does not believe who does not live according to his belief." -- Thomas Fuller

"The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable." -- Wolfgang Pauli

"He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" -- Micah 6:8

"It is because we believe absurdities that we are able to commit atrocities." -- Voltaire

"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli

"Je ne suis pas marxiste." -- Karl Marx

"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."-- Mark Twain

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." -- Albert Einstein