(July 10, 2013 at 10:00 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Cherry picking and the concept of confirmation bias are probably very related to each other it seems ...
No doubt. Confirmation bias is simply cherry picking data, keeping that which confirms your beliefs and discarding the rest. It's the main thought pattern for conspiracy theorists, who hold onto their theories like it's a religion. I've found that the belief patterns between religious belief and conspiracy theories are very similar, and they both start with the conclusion and picking out the data which supports it while ignoring any which refutes it.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
