I doubt most people have much of a notion of science one way or another
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We always see polling on whether people think the world was created 6,000 years ago or came into being 13,600,000,000 years ago.
To most folks those are both just really long spans of time that can be summed up as "forever ago."
The belief that the world is only a few thousand years old is not actually deeply stupid until you contextualize it somehow. Think through, scientifically, what that would mean if true. Absent context, it is merely a wrong answer.
So much of the national "denial" of science is probably better described as indifference to science. To deny something one would have to know something about it to even get to the level of denial.
But folks who cling to scientific absurdity despite knowing the objections (scientific creationism, for example) are just nuts.
It is fine to think that Noah put all the species of animals on the Ark as long as you don't have a good sense of how many species of animal there are. (And thus always were! No evolution.)
It is only when you know how many species there are and then try to rationalize ways for the Ark to hold them all that it becomes lunacy. (Versus indifference and ignorance.)
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