(March 4, 2014 at 8:29 am)JesusLover1 Wrote: I often have trouble evaluating things for myself, and when I see that so many believe, it feels like there has to be something that makes them believe that we can't see, how can it just be because they were told so as a child?Yes, it can be because they were told so as a child.
Children are hard-wired to believe what their elders tell them.
I believe evolution is true, and there are good evolutionary reasons why this is so.
The human species would have died out a long time ago if children did not believe their parents when they told them not to stick their hand in a fire or not to approach a bear.
So we go on believing the traditions where our ancestors got it wrong. I did until I was in my mid-40s.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people — House
