I will give you an example: ask a religious person you know in a completely neutral context where are memories stored and what would happen to a person after su

I will give you an example: ask a religious person you know in a completely neutral context where are memories stored and what would happen to a person after suffering severe head trauma. He or she will I guess not have any problems responding that memories are stored in the brain and that people with severe head trauma die, because everyone "learns" it at school. Yet the same person at a different time would fiercely convince you that there is an afterlife where your soul goes after death and where you are more or less the same person. It is not specific to religion, we seem to "know" a lot of things, but choose to not think of them too much for example because they evoke unpleasant emotions. In general I think we do not as a rule change our deeply rooted beliefs or behaviours simply when new facts appear. It takes changes in social policies, education and to some extent also for new generations of people to replace old ones to have those new facts affect our way of living. That's what I meant by a lag between common sense and science.