Let's face it. We could make 10 hours worth of this stuff, but hopefully the point has been made. All religious faiths, without exception, are empirically unjustified. They exist only because human beings are prone to psychological manipulation and cognitive bias. Not only have we conclusively debunked every serious argument for God's existence from a rational standpoint, but we are reaching the point where we can experimentally model the very reasons why people find these arguments compelling in the first place.
Saturday, 4 January 2014
Psychology of Belief, Part 10: Summary and Conclusions
Let's face it. We could make 10 hours worth of this stuff, but hopefully the point has been made. All religious faiths, without exception, are empirically unjustified. They exist only because human beings are prone to psychological manipulation and cognitive bias. Not only have we conclusively debunked every serious argument for God's existence from a rational standpoint, but we are reaching the point where we can experimentally model the very reasons why people find these arguments compelling in the first place.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment