The Manhattan Project: Difference between revisions
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This is classic '''confirmation bias.''' Our brains naturally search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms our preexisting beliefs, while completely discarding evidence that contradicts them. | This is classic '''confirmation bias.''' Our brains naturally search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms our preexisting beliefs, while completely discarding evidence that contradicts them. | ||
= There really is a true answer = | |||
David Courchaine is right about one thing more than any other: there really does have to be a true answer somewhere. I agree with him completely. Where I part ways with him is in how you find it. | David Courchaine is right about one thing more than any other: there really does have to be a true answer somewhere. I agree with him completely. Where I part ways with him is in how you find it. | ||
== A false dilemma dressed up as humility == | |||
Courchaine repeatedly offers exactly two options: | Courchaine repeatedly offers exactly two options: | ||
#either you believe by pure faith/revelation, or | #either you believe by pure faith/revelation, or | ||
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There is no third door in his telling. | There is no third door in his telling. | ||
===The option he refuses to consider=== | |||
There is an obvious alternative that he never considers and it is the one we constantly point to... the historic Christian position. The faulty dilemma is one of the favorite ways to make a Christian squirm. | There is an obvious alternative that he never considers and it is the one we constantly point to... the historic Christian position. The faulty dilemma is one of the favorite ways to make a Christian squirm. | ||