I reminder my child of our recent visit to a wonderful dinosaur exhibit, and how we learned they ate each other, and they lived long before Adam/Eve did. My child said, "Oh yeah, that's right, it couldn't have been Adam & Eve then."
I was just thinking today about how crippling a worldview that assumes only 6,000 yrs of existence of everything truly is. It's just such a fundamental (no pun intended) handicapping of one's World view, in that it conflicts with every bit of evidence we have, and hence the evidence is automatically dismissed.
People are attracted to the short-story version of creation and cosmology found in the Bible, since we all have a fundamental need to FEEL like we understand how and why all this came about. The Genesis account is seductively simple, as it provides easy answers (as long as you don't think too deeply), and better yet: it can be read in about what, five minutes? Why spend YEARS learning about palentology, geology, natural sciences, botany, astronomy, anthropology, evolution, chemistry,etc? Instead, people choose the Cliff Notes version, which is horribly flawed, and are happy to leave it at that.
Fact is, it really doesn't matter for most people: if you're only going to clean offices at night and go door-to-door by day, it's not a limitation that you don't understand Kreb's cycle, photosynthesis, etc. You just don't need it, just like you don't need to understand how an internal combustion engine works in order to drive the car to meeting for service.
HOWEVER, if you ever hope to do anything better, you are absolutely paralyzed by adopting such a limited World view, and the paralysis only gets more profound with time. None of what man has accomplished (eg Moon shot, etc) would be possible if we left our knowledge stop by concluding that "God Did It..." The anti-intellectual nature of religion is truly saddening, as it requires absolute DEAFNESS to the facts. And the worse part is, the gap is only going to grow wider.