I think many of them are afraid of God.
I think it's a subconscious fear in them stemming from false teachings that have caused them to have a distorted understanding of God's character/nature.
Much of how they've been taught to view God's justice, the atonement, sin, heaven, hell, creation, etc, is based on literal interpretations of prophesies, allegories, and stories written in ancient eastern languages to people in ancient eastern cultures who processed speech and writings differently.
Also....most who adhere to the teachings of western theology won't bother to research in order to see how what they are taught came into being.
They say scripture is inerrant, but they won't research to see how some of the English version bibles they read contain errors in transcription because of the transcriber's theological biases.
They won't research to see how myths of ancient Babylon, Greece, Rome, etc. entered Judaism and Christianity.
So....MHO, is....wrong teachings have led "fundamentalist's" to have a subconscious fear of making God forever angry at them.
It's called condemnation.
I am not a science-minded person, so I stay out of those type of discussions. My view of Genesis is that it is about creation....but not in the literal sense that it was done a few thousand years ago. I see it as a prophesy encompassing the past, present, and future plan of God which will have a really, really good ending.
