RE: Evidence for Believing
October 1, 2019 at 6:43 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2019 at 6:45 pm by Simon Moon.)
(October 1, 2019 at 6:20 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(October 1, 2019 at 4:50 pm)Lek Wrote: They can all reveal God.
Or they can all reveal the same or similar common cognitive disfunction and emotional craving inherited from our ancesters, who were nothing more than merely the least difunctional of various kluges of extemporized neurological circuitry thrown together by contingent circumstances.
Yes, I know, you emotionally crave to be more than that, but that's purely because you are nothing more than that.
Nailed it!
This description is probably very close to what actually is the case. And study after study seems to bear that out. These studies can be researched, reproduced, demonstrated, falsified, etc.
And yet, not a single study points to any god existing. All that we are ever presented with is: ancient 'holy books', feelings, anecdotal reports, fallacies, and failed logical arguments.
I'm going to steal this quote from you: "kluges of extemporized neurological circuitry thrown together by contingent circumstances", because that exactly describes our brains.
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.
