I don't think your intuition is the problem: > Forty percent of U.S. adults ascribe to a strictly creationist view of human origins, believing that God created

I don't think your intuition is the problem: > Forty percent of U.S. adults ascribe to a strictly creationist view of human origins, believing that God created them in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years. https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creati... That's over 100 million people.