Evolution

Some anti-evolutionists just happen not to believe in it, and though I happen not to agree, I'm not going to impugn their reason or sanity, as some seem to do. They're just listening too much to the wrong people I think. In the case of the really vehement anti-evolutionists, though, it seems to come out of a near-frantic desire not to be made uncomfortable by having one's simple sense of reality, taught to them when they were kids, messed with.
Nothing in evolution says not to believe God created everything. We don't know why our hearts keep beating. We have no idea why life struggles to reproduce itself, and keep itself going. God is a perfectly viable explanation for all that.
Evolution just means organisms gradually change in response to the environment. How on Earth could you STOP evolution from happening? The poorly adapted die off, the well adapted survive. Of course. If the Bible says it all started 6000 years ago, why couldn't it be millions? Why couldn't some human have written it down wrongly? Not because God said it would be sacrilege to think so-- I don't think he's supposed to be telling us that. It's really because people's mommies and daddies and preachers told them so when they were kids, and people's whole lives and selves (and security) rest on their basic assumptions.
Maybe it's not so much the particular belief, but a matter of it being threatening to have core beliefs questioned, whatever they happen to be. I often hear people saying they can't question this or that, because their parents brought them up not to.