Author: Lawrence Wood

Lawrence Wood is a retired engineer and physicist who now writes on the history of science. He is the author of Evolution and the Future of Mankind (iUniverse.com, 2010). He presented a paper on “Confronting the Anti-Evolution attack on Public Education” at the 2007 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Division.
Why Is Creationism So Persistent?
 Free Inquiry Volume 34, No. 3
April / May 2014
 Lawrence Wood

Creationist beliefs are dismayingly robust because they accord with intuitions about the world that have been with us for thirty millennia and because they are imposed through childhood indoctrination.

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