Couldn't creativity be described with memetics. That ideas aren't tied to the survival of their host but, like our genes, with their ability to continue to replicate. Most ideas are just other ideas that have been refined to survive new circumstances.
Intelligence has given our species an advantage because of the predictions we are able to make on given evidence that allow us to avoid danger, the mechanism that allows us to make these predictions is somewhat obfuscated at this point.
So as a person develops from childhood their model of the world will contain many contradictory ideas. Given a certain set of circumstances these contradictions are brought to light and depending on the usefulness, and sometimes, but not always, the correctness of the predictions each of these ideas allowed one will survive or grow stronger.
The modern world has allowed us to measure things more closely, and more rigorously trim our ideas. This is done mainly in smaller elite circles of academia.
Then anti-intellectualism is simply the result of people who have models of the world that reject ideas which would do them harm, sometimes with no real benefit. I say no benefit because these new "intellectual" ideas simply aren't verifiable to most of the population. Them believing these ideas would be equivalent to believing parishioner.
However, I would say certain discoveries, or actions broaden general populations worldview and prime them for scientific ideas. The moon landing, technology in general are good examples.
Intelligence has given our species an advantage because of the predictions we are able to make on given evidence that allow us to avoid danger, the mechanism that allows us to make these predictions is somewhat obfuscated at this point.
So as a person develops from childhood their model of the world will contain many contradictory ideas. Given a certain set of circumstances these contradictions are brought to light and depending on the usefulness, and sometimes, but not always, the correctness of the predictions each of these ideas allowed one will survive or grow stronger.
The modern world has allowed us to measure things more closely, and more rigorously trim our ideas. This is done mainly in smaller elite circles of academia.
Then anti-intellectualism is simply the result of people who have models of the world that reject ideas which would do them harm, sometimes with no real benefit. I say no benefit because these new "intellectual" ideas simply aren't verifiable to most of the population. Them believing these ideas would be equivalent to believing parishioner.
However, I would say certain discoveries, or actions broaden general populations worldview and prime them for scientific ideas. The moon landing, technology in general are good examples.