This Scenes From A Multiverse comic is eerily familiar.  It’s about evolution, but replace that with just about any other “contentious” scientific subject and you’ll find yourself in the same boat.  People have a root level fundamental misunderstanding of how a certain thing works and yet they still choose to take a stand and build their world view around that misinformed opinion.  We are, as a people, so afraid to simply say, “I don’t know enough about that to form an opinion”.  Instead, we take the misinformed opinions of someone we mistakenly trust and use them as our own.  That is, unfortunately, how reality works.