"Faith" is a dangerous thing, it blunts our intellect and cognitive ability of rational thinking. It took Humans more than four hundred years (since the time of Copernicus ) to get ride of our Geocentric belief - in spite of all the scientific evidences against this age old belief. At present, billions of people are perfectly comfortable believing 'Adam and Eve story' of creation, but they have trouble accepting scientific truth of Evolution - though every comfort of our today's life is the product of 'scientific invention /discoveries' in one form or another.
Their is a "inverse co-relation between religiosity and acceptance of evolution regardless of our affluence and/ or academic/educational background". The greatest example is the USA. Though the US is one of the most developed countries of the world with very high literacy rate, because of 'it's" religiosity, the acceptance rate of "evolution" among general public in the US is ranked "33" - just ahead of Turkey (ranked 34). The US is one of the most religious country of the developed world,.
Please take your time and watch this wonderful lecture of Professor Jerry Coyne:
Why Evolution is True and Why Many People Still Don't Believe It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW9G2YVtBYc
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