"Because half the country isn’t looking for the truth. They’re looking for confirmation. They don’t want facts, they want fiction with footnotes."
Accurate. This same principle applies to the people who refuse to abandon religion once science has disproven its fictitious narrative (the earth coming into existence before the sun right in t…
"Because half the country isn’t looking for the truth. They’re looking for confirmation. They don’t want facts, they want fiction with footnotes."
Accurate. This same principle applies to the people who refuse to abandon religion once science has disproven its fictitious narrative (the earth coming into existence before the sun right in the opening lines of genesis for example). People just want to hold onto their priors no matter what the evidence because they prefer listening to their gut + simple explanations rather than the facts + complexity. MAGA is just the newest form of American religion that elevates bullshit over evidence (elevating bullshit over evidence in general being our original sin that just extends itself to politics nowadays).
Excuse me, Travis: minor rant here. <Ahem> Many people of faith are actually quite capable of nuanced and informed thinking about the world. I've spent my entire adult life in university settings, hanging around humanists and scientists alike. I have met many highly educated seculars who are as just ignorant or closed-minded about religion as some religious folks I know are about science. My husband is a geologist; we both have Ivy League degrees; we are both Christians. Please get over this notion that religious people have ipso facto given up their intellectual integrity. It's almost as bad as making demeaning generalizations about people on the basis of race or gender or class.
The difference between race and theology is that belief systems are a choice while things like skin color are not, so lets not make that false equivocation. If your husband is a geologist and *knows* how things like isotope dating work and still manages to square that circle with the objectively false claims of the bible, then that's straight up cognitive dissonance in my book.
"Because half the country isn’t looking for the truth. They’re looking for confirmation. They don’t want facts, they want fiction with footnotes."
Accurate. This same principle applies to the people who refuse to abandon religion once science has disproven its fictitious narrative (the earth coming into existence before the sun right in the opening lines of genesis for example). People just want to hold onto their priors no matter what the evidence because they prefer listening to their gut + simple explanations rather than the facts + complexity. MAGA is just the newest form of American religion that elevates bullshit over evidence (elevating bullshit over evidence in general being our original sin that just extends itself to politics nowadays).
Excuse me, Travis: minor rant here. <Ahem> Many people of faith are actually quite capable of nuanced and informed thinking about the world. I've spent my entire adult life in university settings, hanging around humanists and scientists alike. I have met many highly educated seculars who are as just ignorant or closed-minded about religion as some religious folks I know are about science. My husband is a geologist; we both have Ivy League degrees; we are both Christians. Please get over this notion that religious people have ipso facto given up their intellectual integrity. It's almost as bad as making demeaning generalizations about people on the basis of race or gender or class.
Thank you, I'll show myself out now.
The difference between race and theology is that belief systems are a choice while things like skin color are not, so lets not make that false equivocation. If your husband is a geologist and *knows* how things like isotope dating work and still manages to square that circle with the objectively false claims of the bible, then that's straight up cognitive dissonance in my book.
Well said!