Why Britney Spears eventually accpeted evolution (I suspect)

Chris of Mixing Memory has a long post on the cognitive science of evolutionary biology, or, more precisely, how people tend to interpret and perceive evolutionary biology. The whole post is worth reading (and linking if you have a weblog). I hit upon some of the points in my post Endless Forms Most Continuous, but Chris points out three primary blocks to an acceptance of evolutionary biology: 1) Intuitive theism, the tendency to see design in complex objects and phenomena. 2) Intuitive essentialism, the tendency to not frame populations as populations as opposed to iterations of an idealized "type." 3) And, "The role of explanatory power in determining the value of beliefs, and the fact that we may resist explaining our most cherished beliefs in order to avoid devaluing them." This is basically the connection between fundamentalist religious beliefs and their explanation of the world around us. Chris sees #3 ...