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You aren't being instructed to believe something based on faith. You're encountering evidence you disagree with and making up, which is to say hallucinating, t

You aren't being instructed to believe something based on faith. You're encountering evidence you disagree with and making up, which is to say hallucinating, the idea that the evidence of science is something that is like faith. It is nothing like faith. Don't make your problem with the available evidence a question of faith or you discredit faith. Like I said, don't bring faith into politics. If you believe that people who believe climate change is an emergency are taking part in a faith-based movement that is a huge logical error on your part. Faith is a personal choice. Examining evidence and coming to a conclusion about what is real is a matter of logic and reasoning. They are completely different, and mixing them is not just poor form, it exposes your motivated reasoning.

smitty1e 5y ago
We're arguing past each other. It happens.
- Impassionata 5y ago
  I bet it happens to you a lot.
  - smitty1e 5y ago
    Chiefly due to my lack of religious faith in science.
    - Impassionata 5y ago
      No, mostly because you come into topics about serious issues and opine inanely about how science is a religion. You talk past the topic. You get called out on it. You double down. You loftily say that we're talking past each other, when you're the one who tries to insist we follow you on a journey to how science is a religion. Naturally your experience must be that people are talking past you. Because you don't know how to engage in the conversation, you just know how to divert. If you insist on talking past the topic then pointing out that we're talking past each other is your first step to, maybe, perhaps, noticing that your approach to this conversation is the problem.
      - smitty1e 5y ago
        > who tries to insist we follow you on a journey to how science is a religion It's unclear where I have insisted anyone do anything. But let me do that now, and insist that you have both the last word and an excellent rest of your life.

smitty1e 5y ago

We're arguing past each other. It happens.

Impassionata 5y ago
I bet it happens to you a lot.
- smitty1e 5y ago
  Chiefly due to my lack of religious faith in science.
  - Impassionata 5y ago
    No, mostly because you come into topics about serious issues and opine inanely about how science is a religion. You talk past the topic. You get called out on it. You double down. You loftily say that we're talking past each other, when you're the one who tries to insist we follow you on a journey to how science is a religion. Naturally your experience must be that people are talking past you. Because you don't know how to engage in the conversation, you just know how to divert. If you insist on talking past the topic then pointing out that we're talking past each other is your first step to, maybe, perhaps, noticing that your approach to this conversation is the problem.
    - smitty1e 5y ago
      > who tries to insist we follow you on a journey to how science is a religion It's unclear where I have insisted anyone do anything. But let me do that now, and insist that you have both the last word and an excellent rest of your life.