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This response just says it all, doesn't it?There's plenty of evidence, and you know it..
You don't need me to "show you", any more than I need you to show me why the evidence is unbelievable.
You go your way, and I go mine !
It depends what you mean by "all".
Only if a person has mental discipline and reasoning skill, and interested in truth over faith. That is critical thinkers, not religious people.
Yeah, I didn't mean that. And none of those things are evidence for god(s).
That is a false dichotomy.
Those interestd in truth know not to trust faith.
Thus are honest as truth seekers.
More arrogance from a "critical thinker".
There's nothing arrogant about reason and logic.
No, there is nothing arrogant about that, but to imply that people who have a faith cannot be interested in truth very much is.
Yeah, there is, for the reasons I just explained. And to which you have no reply except for "nah!"
When a critical thinker uses the word “truth” the definition is statements that conform to facts and reasoning. Critical thinkers have an interest in understanding what is true about the universe. These judgments are guided by evidence. The more extraordinary a claim or concept the more extraordinary the evidence is required. Critical thinkers aren’t looking for a faith.
No it isn't .. that is just what you want it to be.
Exactly .. and it can justified or unjustified.
You've demonstrated my definition of the word is true, in this very thread. Even if you're not aware of it.
Nope.
Congratulations. I didn't either.
LOL You just agreed with me and then stated the opposite.
No. You don't have to be a scholar to be familiar with myths and be sceptical about stories that could be myths.We are not all scholars, if that's what you mean.
I prefer not to think that the majority of people are inferior to myself.
I don't know, I think muhammad_isa got this one right. You definately have an IQ well over 100 which is where the mid-point of the human bell curve is. You are certainly smarter than way more than the lower 50% of people.
Those that have committed themselves to a religion, like born-again Christians or the Baha'i Faith, are stuck. They can't say, "Oh, I believe all of it except this and that." If their religion tells them the Bible is literally true, they are obligated to believe that. If their religion tells them that Baha'u'llah is the return of Christ, then that's what they've committed themselves to believe. Of course, they can't get unstuck and question those beliefs, but then are they going to keep calling themselves a Christian or a Baha'i?
They are only "stuck" if they want to be "stuck"..
I have posted a video that explains the Ashe experiments. It shows a subject in one test giving wrong answers to questions ONLY because the others in his group are giving the wrong answer, The guy is obviously stressed, but volunteering the wrong answers due to the stress of peer pressure. He is forced to give the wrong answers, his own mind. He is forcing himself to give wrong answers subconsciously, and his conscious mind knows they are wrong. This is similar to how theists can hold false and irrational ideas but not understand why they believe them.
This applies to everyone, regardless of their religious persuasion.
