(November 11, 2017 at 1:34 pm)alpha male Wrote: hr]
(November 11, 2017 at 11:01 am)emjay Wrote: On further reflection on this... if the technical definition of a delusion is relative to cultural/group norms, what would you call, if not a delusion, a belief system that displays, when viewed independently of any of that relativity, all the hallmarks (ie 'symptoms' as it were) of a belief system that is irrationally protected, maintained, and argued?
Then the belief that life can spontaneously arise from inanimate matter is a delusion. Every day there are billions of experiments on this, and it has never once happened - even with much better building blocks as starters than were presumably available in the past.
Still can't quite get the handle on the difference between a belief and a scientific theory, huh?
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
