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You seem to be saying that people who believe in evolution mostly got there by careful evaluation of the evidence and critical thinking. I think you're wrong a

You seem to be saying that people who believe in evolution mostly got there by careful evaluation of the evidence and critical thinking. I think you're wrong about that. Most people's opinions, on most things, are not particularly well thought out. All of us, you and me included, are walking around with wrong ideas we picked up as received wisdom or that help us fit in with our social group. Seizing on creationism and trying to make it into something uniquely awful indicating failures of intelligence or character that most people don't have, is likely a socially motivated error in itself.

chii 13y ago
> Seizing on creationism and trying to make it into something uniquely awful ... is likely a socially motivated error in itself. i dont think you understood my point - which isn't that creationism is awful, but that blindly believing something without evaluating the evidence is awful. Those people who just claim evolution is true without having read any of the supporting evidence, but simply to " fit in with our social group" is just as bad.