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No, I do not know what drives creationists, but I would be interested to learn it. I know many religious people but not a single creationist. I've opened another thread for continuing this discussion in a more orderly way.



There is really one chain of reasoning, and here it is:

a) They believe that evolution and an ancient earth goes against the literal biblical story of creation (it does).

b) They reason that if the Bible is wrong on that score, it may be wrong on all scores.

c) if the Bible is wrong, then there is no God, no Jesus, and no immortality in Heaven. Man dies and that's it. To many people this is unacceptable, and would cause insanity.

This is why poeple argue against evolutionary theory...it takes away their hope, the meaning in their lives.