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People get very hung up on this. Perhaps the first question I would ask is what they mean by one thing turning into another - and what constitutes a basic "kind" of thing?
Obviously your physics teacher is not his or her own father nor mother but came from both - so did the father and mother...
No, not a lack of imagination. On the contrary, believing in things that are not there is TOO MUCH imagination if indeed imagination is the cause of that. It is more likely that it is a lack of imagination that lets people accept nonsense - a lack ability to imagine the consequences of a thing...