(May 8, 2018 at 12:23 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I personally do not weight beliefs in the black-and-white way as the OP. With respect to plausibility and reasonableness, there are differences of degree between various beliefs.
Here's a quick test of how you weight the plausibility and reasonableness of beliefs.
Which on has greater likelihood, Other intelligent life exists in the universe, or that a god(s) exist?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
