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What we are also dealing with is the desire for the "false" to be true even if we know its not
Sure.
It was, as one time, fairly common for mothers to simply choose to not believe her children when they told her that her husband had been molesting them. Families can remain amazingly inobservant to the reality of mental and physical abuse, mental illness, and substance abuse within their own close circle.
Avoidance of emotional pain is a VERY strong incentive to lie to oneself and to others.
This is, I think, a big reason creationists like ICANT are so incredibly resistant and closed to learning. It is far too frightening, since their church has taught them that they must give up their faith if they change their understanding of the Bible.
To me, that is more Bible worship than God worship, but that is for another thread.