Young Earth Creationism is something that people with lots of free-floating anxiety attach that free floating anxiety to. It&#x27;s a belligerent, fear-based reactionary position but what bothers them is the perceived hubris and arrogance of scientists.<p>Plus, some people simply can&#x27;t suspend disbelief of self-organizing systems. I have to wonder if there was trauma in science class for many of them at one point.<p>When I mentioned (as a 5th grade student ) to a 5th-grade student that evolution isn&#x27;t exclusive to Creation , he burst into tears.<p><i>In general</i>, highly charismatic religion seems somehow related to the general changes of the 1960s, coupled with some more sinister uses of mass media. I have to wonder if decades of television have made people addicted to willing suspension of disbelief of a particularly unexamined kind.