(September 11, 2014 at 3:57 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote:(September 11, 2014 at 3:53 pm)ShaMan Wrote: You're not here to learn. Obviously.
Why, because I don't just blindly accept what people tell me without convincing evidence? You're not here to debate, obviously.
Because you blindly accepted strawman versions of what the science actually says, which would be easily avoidable in this day and age if you were practicing real skepticism, which involves a little fact-checking.
You remind me of my father in this regard. He considers himself a skeptic, because he doesn't take the word of doctors that they're not suppressing an affordable cure for cancer. He does believe a TV huckster who claims tablets made from coral can cure cancer (and they're cheap, too!). I'm very glad he doesn't have cancer. But his skepticism isn't inversely proportionate to the likelihood of the claim, it's inversely proportional to how much the claim supports his view of the world; that is, the more it aligns with his view, the less skeptical he is of it, and the less it aligns with his view, the more skeptical he is of it. Since his view is Pentecostal, he believes a lot of weird stuff and is skeptical about a lot of stuff that is well-supported.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.