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Religiosity is based on a rational weighing of evidence... according to the person's individual understanding of the world. That's why I tend to agree with ech
by ethbr0 4y ago
Religiosity is based on a rational weighing of evidence... according to the person's individual understanding of the world.
That's why I tend to agree with echelon.
There's a big difference in the ability to ignore genetic statistics and measurements strongly proving evolution... and "Aliens exist."
The latter would more deeply penetrate the average person's understanding, and hence couldn't be ignored and would have to be incorporated into religious worldviews. It'd look a lot like the geocentric to heliocentric conversion, except bigger.
And like heliocentricity, an extraterrestrial civilization existing would only accumulate further alternate evidence over time, which would crowd dogmatic denialists into tighter and tighter corners.
- BurningFrog 4y ago> Religiosity is based on a rational weighing of evidence... according to the person's individual understanding of the world. We think that's how our brains work, but in reality unconscious processes decide what would be an advantageous belief to have, and another part (sometimes called "the press secretary") comes up with a rationalization that we believe is really why.
- ethbr0 4y agoIt's not that black and white, because there's also socialization and societal drift. One can not simply opt to not believe what everyone around them accepts.
- BurningFrog 4y agoAgreed. That's part of what I meant. Some part of you realizes that it's better to fit in with the society you're part of than to take a stand for the truth of atheism. And so you become a believer.