I recently came upon an article titled "Theism Versus Atheism" on Relijournal. At first glance it seemed to be another just summary of theist vs. atheism arguments. But the author had some interesting points about crusades and the religion-causes-war debate.
Recently, on a trip to Denver, CO, we ran into a young man and woman, probably in their early twenties, who were handing out literature on the sidewalk. Both wore black t-shirts which read, plainly, “Religion is a lie.”
Naturally, we stopped to hear what they had to say. The young man handed us a card, which said the following:
During a recent cross country trip from Arizona to New York, we took note of every ‘religious fish’ car magnet we saw and about where in the country we saw it. Somewhat expectedly, it went something like this:
During a recent cross country trip, we stopped by the new Creation Museum in Kentucky. We wanted to see this with our own eyes. We took a few photos while we were there.
Sara in front of the Creation Museum, Kentucky
I came upon this wonderful post over at Science-Based Medicine:
Neurologist Robert A. Burton, MD has written a gem of a book: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not. His thesis is that “Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.” Your certainty that you are right has nothing to do with how right you are.
Within 24 hours of the Challenger explosion, psychologist Ulric Neisser had 106 students write down how they’d heard about the disaster, where they were, what they were doing at the time, etc. Two and a half years later he asked them the same questions. 25% gave strikingly different accounts, more than half were significantly different, and only 10% had all the details correct. Even after re-reading their original accounts, most of them were confident that their false memories were true. One student commented, “That’s my handwriting, but that’s not what happened.”
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