HIT4ME
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Haha. At Church someone told me that they didn't believe in evolution because "Pokemon isn't real," and "we can't just grow claws like Wolverine, or a longer neck to reach higher trees." He didn't know that evolution in actual science isn't Pokemon's "evolution," which is actually metamorphosis, and that evolution isn't some deliberate process to adapt ideally to external circumstances, it's a random process where genetic deviation and variation and nature team up to slowly and brutally kill off the least suited to survive while sparing the most suited, allowing these random but conditionally desirable variations to spread and reproduce and adapt over many, many hundreds or thousands of years. But if the Church taught him his whole life that "evolution is like Pokemon" then OF COURSE he'd say it's nonsense and immediately dismiss it without even looking into it further. Making a straw man to dismiss opposition and argue against something that doesn't even exist is a great way to indoctrinate people.
I read somewhere once that dumb people are less likely to believe the truth, but smart people are more likely to believe in fiction. The dumb people lack the knowledge to understand how a situation really works and that they don't work the way that THINK they are observing. The smart people often believe in falsehoods because they are able to come up with justifications to explain away discrepancies. It turns out, this makes smart people more likely to fall for scams.

