(July 28, 2017 at 8:06 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(July 28, 2017 at 7:19 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Everybody knows all this, Brian.
The issue with theists is that their emotional attachment to their religion - their faith - overrides their logical mind. They are not incapable of logic, nor are they ignorant. It is simply that when it comes to this subject, emotion/faith > logic for them. We learned this years ago. You are beating a dead horse.
I think most theists in the modern world accept evolution over creationism. Or at least intelligent design. But I think creationists are in the minority.
Still not the point.
Religion does not propagate through neutral objective testing and falsification with control groups and independent peer review. It propagates mostly through being handed down by parents to youth. It is sold on appeal to emotion and appeal to tradition, neither of which are independent evidence, but social tropes the individual lives in.
Maybe in the west in more educated countries sure. But even China and Japan have their own religious superstitions and mythologies that when put under the scrutiny of independent skepticism fall apart when under the microscope.
It does not matter if people scrap Creationism or ID, sure that is fine, but they will simply find something else to excuse clinging to old mythology, they will simply find something else to hang their hat on.
But again, I am being fair to you CL this is the case with all religions in the world. It boils down to "Old habits are hard to break" and humans don't like their social norms being upset. So when a family or a sect or religious institution figures out their old arguments don't work, they simply try to invent new marketing.
The Cosmos series I mentioned touches on this a bit in each episode. It is what I like to call "the gate keeper fallacy". Humans evolved to be curious so sure every part of the globe has made both big and small contributions to get to where we are now. But that is not evidence that any religion is true or that any god exists.
