Why Can't others See?

[Purple Rabbit]

Go with the flow, Dotard. It was a good posting, that last one of Arcanus. Indeed the more interesting question is not why educated people believe in the supernatural, but why so few people are interested at all in basic philosohical questions. My impression is that most (believer or non-believer alike) try to escape any discussion on these topics. Hell, my own children think that I am a nerd with this forum bullshit all the time. They probably are right.

To answer your question Dotard from my POV, it seems odd to me to expect that education alone can totally remove cultural, social and above all typical human traits like thinking in schemes of punishment and reward, agent and object patterns, fear, overactive pattern recognizing and the like. Scientists are human too.

One more thing, the theists here almost all seem to claim authority on the subject of believing, assuming that atheists present here, have no clue. I think a number of atheists present here have been there, have been raised in religious families and found themselves eventually rowing upstream. If it s OK to think that children actually choose to believe in the god of their parents, because they say so when they're young, when you feed them those communion wafers (sic), then it is OK to claim authority on the subject as an atheistic adult who as a child believed in god.