[ExI] atheism

[Mirco Romanato]

Il 28/12/2009 1.56, Samantha Atkins ha scritto:
> There is ample evidence that belief regardless of evidence or argument
> is harmful.

Is it so only for religion or for anything?

For example, is the belief of AGW without raw data and methods used to 
allow replication harmful?
For example, is the belief of the possibility/utility to redeem convict 
felons without evidence is harmful?
For example, is the belief that all humans have the same moral rights 
without proof harmful?
For example, is the belief that all humans are equals without proof harmful?
For example, the belief that the government can do better than private 
enterprises without proof (well, with large proof of the opposite) is 
harmful?

I think that some belief unsupported by proof are useful for the people 
believing them. The problem is that so many people use general 
intelligence and rationality with problems too complex to be solved by 
simple rationality. It is like trying to compute the trajectory of a 
stone you throw with your hand and hoping to hit the target, then 
marveling why an uneducated is better at it.

Mirco
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