Hi, RAZD. I enjoyed your "through a haze darkly" insights, and I think they are valid. The "information denied" index seems like a variation of Occam's razor...
I would like to offer a related thought. When we debate evolution with creationists, we are debating with those who have already embraced belief-without-reason, i.e., faith. They are a preselected population.
Moreover, that embrace often occurs during an intense psychological experience, a sort of meltdown/recrystallization process, where the person despairs of making sense of or coping with life without the intercession of a larger force. Althouth this is not the only path to religious belief, it is the one most frequently followed by the evangelical fundamentalists who most adamantly deny evolution and refuse to address the evidence.
What headway can reason and data make against that sort of experiential intensity and investment?
"World view" is entirely too dry and abstract to describe the consequences. They have been saved, not just from a bad afterlife, but from a chaotic world of despairing meaninglessness. To attain that state, they have accepted much without evidence or reason; to hold firm against both, when it means continued safe harbor from the end-stage hopelessness they were saved from, is a trivial act compared to the initial investment.
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