Ignorance is Bliss

42% of Americans believe that the world and its creatures have existed as such since God created them as told in the Book of Genesis.

Even with all the evidence to the contrary people still believe the creation stories of the Bible as factual, and not as metaphors. Belief in God and acceptance of evolution are not incompatible positions. I am not sure what to make out of the Pew Research Poll, whether it can be attributed to plain ignorance or willful denial.