(May 20, 2016 at 6:08 pm)AAA Wrote:(May 20, 2016 at 5:49 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote: And it gets worse, there is lots of evidence to show that once you come to a belief, then even being shown evidence opposing your belief (even to the level of discrediting it like AAA's beloved creatardism) will push you to more extreme and strident holding of that belief. There is a stage where nothing will shift you from a wrong belief. Here's a good article on the phenomenon in a political context.I'm glad you are immune to psychological biases constable dorfl. I am perfectly aware. I wrote like a 10 page paper on the topic of what psychological biases influence the decisions we come to this past semester for my brain and behavior class. I read The God Delusion and Signature in the Cell and compared the two.
I honestly think that AAA is at this stage with respect to ID and creatardism, and no amount of the rest of us pointing out the sheer ridiculousness of his arguments or the wrongness of his beliefs is going to change them. He has taken on his beliefs too strongly, invested too much emotional effort into them and has owned them so totally that any challenge no matter how well argued or cited is going to do anything but strengthen his wrong belief.
Nobody has shown why it is rediculous to interpret the amazing intricacy of life as the result of a mind.
AAA unlike you I am well aware of most of my biases and am actively working on minimizing their effect. If you truly wrote a ten page paper on how biases affect peoples decision making then you'd know the exact irrational basis for your continued support for creatardism, despite its complete inability to describe how life is in its current form and lack if ability to predict anything.
I feel sorry for you, in the peroids where your arrogant ignorant know-it-all posturing doesn't get annoying. You've clearly backed the wrong horse, but you've invested so much in it that you can't back outeven with clear evidence presented to you, and even though your false belief is going to stunt the rest of your life.