RE: My dumbass parents doubt evolution
November 9, 2012 at 2:09 pm
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2012 at 2:31 pm by Cyberman.)
There's also a difference between belief and reasonable expectation. It's perfectly reasonable to expect the Sun to rise in the morning, for which we don't even need to rely on past experience which isn't always reliable anyway (that's how lottery scams tend to work). A basic grounding in orbital mechanics and the rotation of the Earth will help cement this expectation as well as explaining the mechanism behind it. That we tend to describe such expectations as belief is an unfortunate consequence of language, which shouldn't be taken as a vindication of belief as in faith in things for which there is no reasonable expectation, such as in gods. Until a god attains the same observational evidence as the principles that cause the Sun to appear to rise in the morning, any belief in it is going to be irrational almost by definition. Attempts to fabricate evidence hurt the claim rather than help.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
