Remember the Simpson's episode in which Homer finds out there is no God and when Flanders is shown proof of it, he dismisses it and prefers keep with his beliefs?
Believers' capacity to deny reality never ceases to amaze me. It's not even as if we didn't know about these facts, but that they don't like the facts just because they belittle their petty God. Well, as Einstein said, "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"