(February 27, 2014 at 3:13 pm)JesusLover1 Wrote:(February 27, 2014 at 3:10 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: You do know that there are 1000's of people that you could go talk to, that claim with extreme sincerity, that they were abducted by aliens.
Do you believe them?
Just do a bit of research into how easy it is to fool the human mind in the right circumstance.
They're lying, I know my parents are telling the truth.
Not so. Most of them truly believe what they claim to have experienced.
That doesn't mean the only 2 choices are, that they really did have the experience, or that they are lying.
They could believe they really had the experience, but were fooled by their brains. Just like your mom.
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.
