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More like something has been taught more or less one way for thousands of years. Do you really expect people to change so quickly (relatively speaking)?
Most creationist or others that do not support evolution do so because the evidance they would accept does not exist. Namely the intermediate species between one species and another. Evidance of the transitions form when one species becomes another species. It is something I don't recall any scientist being able to provide.
Because otherwise, those that do not support evolution consider all these other species seperate creations that lived and died, with no real relation to other species.
The main one is that most in these grouping have the most abolute detest for the idea the humans came from apes (yet there are still apes most would say, but none of the other humanoid species survived). Absolutely detest that idea.
There also tends to be a bit of species-ism. Humans are special (god X must have a plan for it or something), thus they must have been made special, not from some dumb ape or chimp. That tends to be another point of contention.
Some will debate dinosaurs, but most don't anymore. If it comes up they might ignore it. I don't know how many stick to the "young Earth" notions of creation within the last say 10,000 year verse the billions specualted today.
Some it isn't a lack of education. It is a overabundance of faith. They might have learned all about evolution and the theories of the age of the world and many other thing. They simply reject it as either fiction, or it does not suit their beliefs because of course "how can god be wrong?" (a religious scientist would say, it isn't a matter of god being wrong, it is a matter of the relatively ignorant priests who wrote stuff down being wrong). In some cases if you read into the text of the Bible orthe Torah, you can piece together some surprisingly advanced scientific knowledge...that is watered down for the masses. Or transcribed or translated so many times that the details are not clear anymore. Or in Genesis, by the time the stories were written down, too much of the original narration was lost. Details were blurred, and events exaggerated. (The Great Flood is a tale that exists in some form in many of the ancient societies. However it is also true that nearly all major societies started arounf giant rivers. Rivers that flood. That or it was a tale from the end of the Ice Age...when the ice melted the Oceans returned flooding any coastal villages and cities that might have existed. Some ahve the tale as civilization existing before th flood, and then reviving after the flood...but a few have the flood as the beginning of all things. It is a potentially interesting study that I'm sure has already been done).
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