@shekinahcancook@meltedcheese I think you "underestimate" how adaptive this is. Even the most distasteful christofascist or Hamas member is the product of millennia of successful reproduction. Something they are doing is adaptive. Evolutionary pressures seem to have made some trade between commitment to scientific truth and group cohesion. Probably in some ecological niches, the group cohesion based on collective lies is more adaptive than individualism based on more objective truth.