Why is creationism more popular than the Flat Earth theory?

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I think it´s partly due to widespread air travel and images of Earth from space, so more people now have a feeling for it being round. What kind of experience or social phenomenon would it take for people to accept evolutionary theory in the same way?

Incidentally, i live in England, but there are definitely many people even here who believe in creationism.

Incidentally, should you believe in creationism yourself, please don't take offence but i would prefer you not to answer.
Incidentally, i would like to apologise for my overuse of the word "incidentally".
 
You already know the answer. We can absolutely prove that the earth isn't flat, but we can't prove that the world wasn't created by a supreme being. Of course, we can't prove one DOES exist, either, but people do like to cling to their comforts.
 
As penny pointed out, people want to believe creationism, for a sense of meaning.

But the round earth proof is much more immediate and obvious than one for evolution. One look at a picture shows it.
For evolution is more of an analysis of facts. It is easy to get confused. And it could all be explained by saying "god just made it looklike that"
 
Because creationism gives meaning to a meaningless glob of chaos. although it's a little extreme in this day and age when it's more acceptable to be agnostic or believe in something like intelligent design. I live in the U.S. and just took a college course called "Man is But a Worm: Grappling with a Darwinian World." The ideas behind creationism have been around for a very long time and I think because of that it will take a long time for evolution to catch on everywhere. People are afraid of a meaningless existence, which is what evolutionary theory seems to imply. The class was interesting thought because it wasn't really nihilistic all the time. There's hope when you make your own meaning! I forgive you for using the word incidentally.
 
Creationism is part of Christian dogma, and requires suspension of critical thinking for anyone to truly believe. Same as believeing in Virgin Birth, you really need "faith" to buy into that one! It's truly mythology for the modern era.
A lot of people will believe anything that they've heard every week for their whole life, just look at other folks' belief that deficit spending by governments is actually a good thing. Christian teachings explain the unexplainable for simple folks, and make it easier to accept and prepare them for a human's ultimate fate, death.
 
Creationism sounds feasible to the weak minded religious people. It's hard to support flat earth theory when people fly round the world so easily these days.
 
I'm not going to give you a direct answer, but more of a broad one and let you draw your own conclusion


there are 7.5 million mentally retarded people in the united states of america.

most of whom are taught "the earth is round and god is great"
 
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