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New study suggests politics AND religion predispose us from accepting fact
Posted: Nov 11, 2014
Needs more research, but interesting. I'm not sure it always has to be so "either/or", though - I can accept evolution ad fact, but also believe in God was the master scientist of that experiment. I can also know I'm in love but have no way to scientifically prove that to anyone other than deed. In fact, love lights up on SPECT scan images like chocolate or prayer. However, I have always believed that before you can accept others' smoking-gun evidence as fact, political or otherwise, you have to first be brave enough to challenge your own belief system rather than follow along in "blind faith." So are you brave enough? :) ;
Everyone has biases, and bias is a predisposition - that interferes with rational thought.
[ In Reply To ..]It's a fascinating subject - how we think, and how our thought processes can so easily (and regularly) be derailed. In fact, there are many kinds of fallacies to which the human mind is very susceptible.
One that I see on this forum quite frequently is one in which people simply ignore evidence that contradicts their pre-conceived ideas - and will argue vociferously that they're doing no such thing. Instead, they'll go in search of arguments that contradict the "uncomfortable" idea they don't like, and support their own - and then claim that they're presenting a rational debate, when in fact they're just repeaating the error all over again. Even while they pretend to be offering a counterargument, they're still just seeing what they want to see and presenting the facts that they want to present.
What happened is that they formed their opinion first and then went in search of support for it - when it's supposed to work quite the other way around. As such, there's not a hope in Hades that they will ever truly consider that issue objectively, because the mind will do almost anything to protect itself from what it perceives as an assult on its cherished beliefs.
Yes, fascinating indeed.
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