Creationist tendency

"What her work suggests is that the creationist side has a huge leg up early on because it fits our natural tendencies," says Paul Bloom, a psychologist at Yale University. "It has implications for why most people on earth are creationists, I think."

For this reason, it's not surprising that non-religious, college-educated adults fall back on purpose-seeking explanations. Many people have little understanding of evolution and instead view it as a cultural belief, thinking: "'I'm a good secular liberal, I'm no yokel, I believe in Darwin,'" Bloom says.

He also wonders if extensive science education could blunt the tendency to fall back on teleological explanations. "It might turn out that if you put Richard Dawkins or Einstein or whomever [to the test], no matter how expert or educated they are, they might still make these mistakes."

Indeed, Kelemen is running similar experiments on volunteers with stronger science backgrounds to see if they, too, fall ba

I'm sure, they do so, because they know, that it's not opportune to know any about the evolution. We are bombed the whole day by TV or radio with messages about believing the whole shit, that is told by public persons. And I hear well educated friends tell the same - because they don't want to know the outcome, the end. I'm sure !