"Precisely because believing is lot easier than thinking" It took me 20+ years of being a skeptic to realize this. I remember on a SGU podcast there was a poli

"Precisely because believing is lot easier than thinking" It took me 20+ years of being a skeptic to realize this. I remember on a SGU podcast there was a politician who refused to believe in evolution and was trying to get creationism back into schools. When he was asked why he didn't believe in evolution his response was "I just don't understand it. Creationism makes sense". It dawned on me it had nothing to do with any rational argument this guy put together, he just didn't like feeling there was a topic he didn't understand. While he understood creationism just fine, evolution came along with a heavy array of questions that he was not ready to deal with. I've had a discussion with someone who after a death in the family responded to the question of "Why do you believe in an afterlife" with the answer of "I'm not ready to deal with the fact it doesn't". People like easy answers, not going to the moon makes a hell of a lot more sense than we did. The fact that 'natural' or 'organic' are words that do not simply mean 'good' but also come with a heavy array of questions are just things some people can't be bothered dealing with.