How came some religious people completely disbelieve in evolution? While they believe human came from one person, and yet now we have many races with many apparent and distinguishable characteristics because adaptations from environment aka the evolution.
from my experiences misinterpretation plays a part here and not really refusal to the theory itself. they rejected the idea that humans descended from ape (though ToE didn't say anything like that)
But somehow I still can actually understand some rejection on how human came from ape as science wise we still have the missing link part.