(March 11, 2015 at 5:44 pm)professor Wrote: Nope, you asked why anyone would fudge the reporting of a story like that?
You do realize our personal beliefs enter in to every compartment of our lives.
See the response the story got right here?
Now picture one of these guys who are vehemently atheist, as being a reporter or on the Associated Press team,
relaying all the news they deem fit for you.
Get the picture?
For an atheist to believe the testimony of the (to be) rescuers, they have a choice:
A)Make up some nonsense.
B) Admit some supernatural element is involved- and embark on a long slippery slope leading to the negation of Naturalism which is the entire foundation of Atheism.
I wasn't very clear, I think. What I meant was that a news organization has no reason to keep this story secret because it plays into what the readers already want to be true.
