I think this was a topic in another thread somewhere, but I'll repeat something that I have seen happen. A number of well... I mean VERY WELL... educated and highly intelligent scientists I have known, suddenly departed from evolutionary theory to become hardcore creationists.
It is true that their choice was based on emotions rather than facts (only later reading facts according to emotion), but it does suggest that education and intelligence may have little to do with evo-creo positions. After all they remained highly competent and highly paid scientists (one of them unbelievably in agricultural genetics: ie breeding) despite their unhinged approach to origins of speciation.
Nonsense, to suggest that these intlligent scientists are foolish and naieve enough to operate on emotion in their scientific fields. They've simply considered the odds and said, "Impossible," and (forbid it) applied some common sense logic to their conclusion of origins.
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