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An absence of a belief =/= a belief

I realise now, many live by emotion, not by intellectualising. A person with arachnophobia can tell themselves there is no reason to be afraid of spiders,...

"You can't reason someone out of a belief they did not reason themselves into."


Cognitive bias

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The church.



The church.



Source?

When in doubt, consult John Baez =P

yeeahh, it didn't happen...

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/breaking-news-error-undoes-faster.html



Do you have any examples of this happening?

Hey eileen,



Over the last 100 years:

>The average human lifespan has more than doubled.

>Average income per-capita (adjusted for inflation) around the world has tripled.

What he does is not science, honestly.

I dunno if he's a fraud though, I think he genuinely believes his BS theories. (Bad Science)

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You mean this?

a group of people who believe in and channel spiritual galactic aliens/angels :wacko:

Either:

(1) Spiritual aliens exist

or

(2) Crazy people exist

http://www.plants.ox.ac.uk/plants/

Yep =p

Nope, there's just this picture in the letter. You could write back to him?

You are a forensic scientist teaching at Oxford University. You receive a letter from a farmer in Dorset, inside you find this photograph. On a note he explains that while gardening, he found a...

i doubt it

The problem, imo, is that the majority of people seem to show little intrest for putting their faith in empiricism, or looking into things for themselves--especially in politics--unfortunately. This...

On what basis are you making these judgements?

Global Fertility rates (the average number of children a woman has over her childbearing years) have been falling pretty significantly in the last...

Nice post.

The whole red/blue thing is symbolic of flase dilemmas on a grand scale IMO. (in so many ways e.g. left vs right, believers vs skeptics etc.)

Purple pill tastes the best, I think =P...

Global overpopulation is not an issue. The issue of overpopulation is with developing nations. The solution to overpopulation in these nations is development of education/infrastructure/communication...

Hey Giuse, thanks for sharing the vid.

I have a few concerns,

"The information shared in this documentary is not the opinion or beliefs of those sharing but an inherent truth."

Isn't whoever...

Perhaps you are, but if you really think I'm just seeing what I want to see, why not show me? Show me how there's a downwards spiral. If you're so sure, why shouldn't you? As you said you would love...

How do you think we could get back into the stream of life? I'd love to hear some of your ideas. Personally, I don't see a downward spiral. We do have problems that need to be solved, yeah. However,...