Fear, Disgust, and Ontology: What Kind of Morality is at Stake?

The theory of evolution is rejected by more than 50% of the American population, largely for moral reasons. While moral cognition is difficult to measure directly, current research has tied morality to disgust sensitivity. In this study, the Three Domain Disgust Scale (TDDS) was used to explore individual differences in disgust and morality associated with creationist beliefs as measured by the ten-item Creationist Evolution scale. Moral disgust did not factor into creationist beliefs while sexual disgust and pathogen sensitivity did. A follow-up multiple regression found that sexual disgust was the only significant predictor of creationism