RE: Atheistic Dogma- Scientific Fundamentalism
September 18, 2014 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2014 at 1:01 pm by Simon Moon.)
(September 18, 2014 at 12:55 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: Ok, so I said I have 80% confidence in a belief regarding consciousness/intelligence based on my personal reasoning based on experiences and research. I do not assume you have the same experiences or that you have resaerched the same things. My belief is not 100%, because, as you said, there are still so many unknowns, but I've been swayed in that direction.
Why haven't the vast majority of scientists in these fields, who actually understand the evidence, who have dedicated their lives to study, who work with it every day, reached the same conclusions as you have?
What do you see, at your admittedly layperson level understanding, that they don't see at their expert level of understanding?
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.
