A significant minority of people fully reject human evolution, opting instead for the belief that humans were specially created with no prior evolutionary ancestry less than ten thousand years ago. Such beliefs are often infused with a non-scientific perception of different races and how the supposedly originated. And, in spite of overwhelming scientific evidence and changing social norms, a relatively large proportion of people still cling to past traditions of white supremacy and racism.

As quoted in Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race (2015), by Daniel J. Fairbanks, p. 155. - The Arts, the Sciences, and the Light of the Gospel (2000)