I think it is intellectual dishonesty (in the form of fooling onesself) combined with varying degrees of desperate denial.
It is easier to take an entrenched view and defend creationism beyond reason. It is easier to throw verbal stones and then scatter to the boosom of one's preacher/church and tut, tut about all the evil athiestic scientists. Makes ya feel all warm and good inside, not to mind self righteous. If you can come up with a few good ones you can even write a few books that will appeal to the masses of others who just don't want to think or face the intellectual or spiritual difficulty that areas of grey demand.
If you believe you have 'the truth' no amount of evidence matters.
Saves a lot of time and effort or having to think.....
It is easier to take an entrenched view and defend creationism beyond reason. It is easier to throw verbal stones and then scatter to the boosom of one's preacher/church and tut, tut about all the evil athiestic scientists. Makes ya feel all warm and good inside, not to mind self righteous. If you can come up with a few good ones you can even write a few books that will appeal to the masses of others who just don't want to think or face the intellectual or spiritual difficulty that areas of grey demand.
If you believe you have 'the truth' no amount of evidence matters.
Saves a lot of time and effort or having to think.....
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