How come "creation scientists" are able to fool so many otherwise intelligent people?

They lie about the number of scientists who reject evolution and rely on the fact that many people are too lazy to independently verify what they are told.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty1Bo6GmPqM

How come "evolution scientists" are able to fool so many otherwise intelligent people?

Is it because many people don't understand even the most basic characteristics of what constitutes science or do they set aside their understanding of science when it conflicts with their religious beliefs? Doesn't the fact that the "evolution scientists" are in the business of running internet web-sites make them suspect they may not be scientists after all?

Webster's Dictionary defines religion as follows, "Cause, principle or system of beliefs held with ardour and faith." Surely this is an apt description of evolution.

Evolution is a 'belief system' i.e. a religion !

Models of science are subject to change for both creationists and evolutionists. But, the beliefs that these models are built on are not. The problem is that most scientists do not realize that it is the belief (religion) of evolution that is the basis for scientific models (the interpretations, or stories) used to attempt an explanation of the present. Evolutionists are not prepared to change their actual belief that all life can be explained by natural processes and that no God is involved (or even needed). Evolution is a religion to which they are committed. Christians need to wake up to this.

Evolution is a religion, not a science.

May God bless you as you study His Word

<:)))><

Faith and science can have and do coexist. Neither voids out the other. Some the greatest contributions to science have been by Christians. Here are but a few of them below.

John Philoponus late 6th Century Aristotle's early Christian critic

Hugh of St. Victor c. 1096-1141 theologian of science

Robert Grosseteste c. 1168-1253 reform-minded bishop-scientist

Roger Bacon c. 1220-1292 Doctor Mirabiles

Dietrich von Frieberg c. 1250-c. 1310 the priest who solved the mystery of the rainbow

Thomas Bradwardine c. 1290-1349 student of motion

Nicole Oresme c. 1320-1382 inventor of scientific graphic techniques

Nicholas of Cusa 1401-1464 grappler with infinity

Georgias Agricola 1495-1555 founder of metallurgy

Johannes Kepler 1571-1630 discoverer of the laws of planetary motion

Johannes Baptista van Helmont 1579-1644 founder of pneumatic chemistry and chemical physiology

Francesco Maria Grimaldi 1618-1663 discoverer of the diffraction of light Catholic

Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 mathematical prodigy and universal genius

Robert Boyle 1627-1691 founder of modern chemistry

John Ray 1627-1705 cataloger of British flora and fauna Calvinist (denomination?)

Isaac Barrow 1630-1677 Newton's teacher

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723 discoverer of bacteria

Niels Seno 1638-1686 founder of geology

James Bradley 1693-1762 discoverer of the aberration of starlight

Ewald Georg von Kleist c. 1700-1748 inventor of the Leyden jar

Carolus Linnaeus 1707-1778 classifer of all living things

Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 the prolific mathematician

John Dalton 1766-1844 founder of modern atomic theory

Thomas Young 1773-1829 first to conduct a double-slit experiment with light

David Brewster 1781-1868 researcher of polarized light

William Buckland 1784-1856 geologist of the Noahic flood

Adem Sedgwick 1785-1873 geologist of the Cambrian

Augustin-Jean Fresnel 1788-1827 the physicist of light waves

Augustin Louis Cauchy 1789-1857 soulwinning mathematician

Michael Faraday 1791-1867 giant of electrical research

John Frederick William Herschel 1792-1871 cataloger of the Southern skies

Matthew Fontaine Maury 1806-1873 pathfinder of the seas

Philip Henry Gosse 1810-1888 popular naturalist

Asa Gray 1810-1888 influential botanist

James Dwight Dana 1813-1895 systematizer of minerology

George Boole 1815-1864 discoverer of pure mathematics

James Prescott Joule 1818-1889 originator of Joule's Law

John Couch Adams 1819-1892 codiscoverer of Neptune

George Gabriel Stokes 1819-1903 theorist of fluorescence

Gregor Mendel 1822-1884 pioneer in genetics

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin 1824-1907 physicist of thermodynammics

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann 1829-1907 the non-Euclidean geometer behind relativity theory

James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879 father of modern physics

Edward William Morley 1838-1923 Michelson's partner in measuring the speed of light

Pierre-Maurice-Marie Duhem 1861-1923 the physicist who recovered the science of the Middle Ages

Georges Lemaitre 1894-1966 the prist who showed us the universe is expanding

George Washington Carver c. 1864-1943 pioneer in chemurgy

Arthur Stanley Eddington 1882-1944 the astronomer who ruled stellar theory

Creationism is the pseudo-scientific confirmation of the faith that they were indoctrinated into at birth.

Their religion and culture cannot possibly be wrong can it ?

They have believed in it all of their lives.

Their religion demands that truth is subordinate to the myth.

They are trapped in a psychological conundrum.

The same way that the people who are members of the religion of "man-made global warming" have so many followers when geothermal scientists debunks the garbage.

Science is tentative at best. Consensus is no measure of factuality. Even long-trusted scientific theories can be challenged by anomalies. As Thomas Kuhn and subsequent philosophers of science have pointed out, scientists typically work within paradigms, or accepted explanatory frameworks. Anomalies are surprises that don't fit the paradigm. When too many anomalies accumulate, a scientific revolution may occur, and a new paradigm may take its place.

If you compromise the Bible with the latest paradigm, your position could become a casualty of the next one. The Bible has outlasted a great many paradigms. Considering its Author, that's no surprise.

"Is it because many people don't understand even the most basic characteristics of what constitutes science or do they set aside their understanding of science when it conflicts with their religious beliefs?"

It's probably a mix of both, but more the second one. A secular person who studies science will generally agree with it, but a creationist who studies science will have his brain go limp.

what I suspect is that people who accept he theory of evolution do it becuz they are in rebellion against what anyone can see if they just look around and that is that there is intelligent design here thus there is an intelligent designer and it is that designer who is soooo superior to those who wish He did not exist thus making them at the apex of intelligent life instead of Him. Jealous and pride therefor are at the root of the avoidance of rational thought which any one can see is that this is an intelligently created universe.

pride goes b4 the fall.

Pseudoscientific jargon goes a long way when the audience wants to believe you.

Science illiteracy. Most people prefer dumbed down explanations to the real thing.