Why do Christians become Christians?

[RoadRunner79]

Who took the picture? 

Could've been you.... but that wouldn't matter as to the accuracy of your memory, your knowledge..where you were standing between them.  It is more reasonable than "my knowledge is right and the evidence is wrong", isn't it?  Your mind instantly attached to that possibility, didn't it? If only that were our standard response to all such instances where our knowledge contradicts fact, amiright?

You didn't reference the picture in the original memory in your story.  The picture came in later as evidence, that the memory was false.  However the picture is limited in scope and time; it doesn't mean the memory was false, only that it wasn't captured in the picture.  

I don't have a very good memory.   And perhaps this makes me more attune and able to recognize what I do remember and do not.  What is fuzzy, and what is clear.  I also think that it attributes to making me better in my occupation as a troubleshooter of machine controls, because I don't follow a memorized script, but figure it out each time.  However I don't think that I have ever simply inserted an entire story into memory, as you are attempting to describe.  So, I cant relate.  

In the example above, you hinted at a situation in which you -didn't- insert an entire story into memory.  There was a plausible explanation for that memory, for that knowledge....it just didn't have anything to do with it's accuracy.  In fact, it would be an explanation -for- it's inaccuracy, and existence...regardless -of- accuracy.  Can we think of some other memories, experiences, or knowledge to which this might be applicable?

If this is more common than I thought in others though, perhaps it explains a lot of what I see here.

It's common to us all, we're habitual ret-conners, but 3/5 for the quip.

I don't think that these stories are indicative of what I understand the point you are trying to demonstrate is.   Perhaps you can clarify the claim that you are making, so we can better examine it.  I think that from the beginning and in other threads, I have maintained, that aspects of memory/witness testimony can be inaccurate. I also believe strongly in evaluating all the evidence within the context of it's strength and in regards to agreement or disagreement with other evidence.    I've read a number of the studies provided and what they say, and don't dispute it.  What I do dispute, is that these studies disqualify personal observation and transmission of that information as evidence.