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Tag: belief
Orwell’s Believe-It-and-Not
“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it […]
Old dinosaur beliefs: What’s new?
The dinosaur news from Texas contains little that’s new. The Texas Tribune reports, on February 17, 2010: Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas […]
Reality is a second choice, hypothetically
When asked what they would do if scientists were to disprove a particular religious belief, nearly two-thirds (64%) of people say they would continue to hold to what their religion teaches rather than accept the contrary scientific finding, according to the results of an October 2006 Time magazine poll. So writes David Masci in an […]