From: salyavin808 <[email protected]> ---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
Thanks again for posting thought-provoking material, Salyavin. While the whiners are busy pointing fingers and blaming others for not posting anything of value, you point out how lame they are by...wait for it...simply posting something of value. I thought it was interesting, especially as real lives depend on a Palestinian state. It popped up on Richard Dawkin's Facebook page last night and I was going to post a back-story but I was busy watching the snooker (no sense of priority me): In 2004 I got a letter printed in the Guardian and it was about Richard Dawkins. He'd just made a spectacularly crass statement about "stupid" people praying in the aftermath of the Boxing day tsunami. Obviously if God was going to help he would have stopped the thing in the first place but an intellectual appraisal of where to direct their energy isn't what people really needed to hear at that moment in time. My letter was about how Dawkins - who held the chair for the public understanding of science at Oxford University - might be better off working towards a scientific understanding of the public. And here it is. May it help him keep his foot out of his mouth. It's an interesting dichotomy. Normally rational people -- some of them even so-called scientists -- seem to have this background process running in their brains that scans every new situation they encounter and shunts it into one of two cubbyholes: A -- This is an issue that has to do with real-world events and facts...engage brain and use it. B -- This is an issue that has to do with faith or belief -- disengage brain because it's not needed. From: salyavin808 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 10:33 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Faith v Facts JERUSALEM — MOST of us find it mind-boggling that some people seem willing to ignore the facts — on climate change, on vaccines, on health care — if the facts conflict with their sense of what someone like them believes. “But those are the facts,” you want to say. “It seems weird to deny them.”And yet a broad group of scholars is beginning to demonstrate that religious belief and factual belief are indeed different kinds of mental creatures. People process evidence differently when they think with a factual mind-set rather than with a religious mind-set. Even what they count as evidence is different. And they are motivated differently, based on what they conclude. 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