When your core beliefs are taught from birth and instilled every Sunday, if not more regularly, it would be difficult to move against that belief. All of the successful religions include bombarding the young with adherence, and promises of great things if they are subservient. People find it difficult to break away from the beliefs that have been installed for years, so when science shows something against that belief they push against the science, and in the case of Stephen Meyer they respond with pseudoscience like intelligent design. We don’t know how the universe came to being (so can’t rule out the possibility of a creator) but we can be pretty certain that evolution exists and that we are descended from early apes (against the Christian genesis). Many Christians accept evolution, and see the biblical account as not literal.
