An interesting article I ran across today...
" Historians and creationism watchers have long noted several strong and quite reliable psychological generalizations that can be made about creationists e.g., how creationists jump to conclusions based on what naively seems like common sense to them, an almost instinctual dualism- and design-based thinking, a place of pride for childlike faith, an old-fashioned Baconian attitude to science (Facts good! Theories bad!!), a severe difficulty with probabilities and other abstract topics, a severe case of typological thinking and an inability to even correctly conceptualize a particular proposed transitional organism, an amazingly uncritical acceptance and blind repetition of anything their own authorities say, etc These generalizations apply to young-earthers right through to old-earth creationists (and therefore IDers, which are a mix of the two)."
" Historians and creationism watchers have long noted several strong and quite reliable psychological generalizations that can be made about creationists e.g., how creationists jump to conclusions based on what naively seems like common sense to them, an almost instinctual dualism- and design-based thinking, a place of pride for childlike faith, an old-fashioned Baconian attitude to science (Facts good! Theories bad!!), a severe difficulty with probabilities and other abstract topics, a severe case of typological thinking and an inability to even correctly conceptualize a particular proposed transitional organism, an amazingly uncritical acceptance and blind repetition of anything their own authorities say, etc These generalizations apply to young-earthers right through to old-earth creationists (and therefore IDers, which are a mix of the two)."
