[ExI] How many current members of ExI?

[Giulio Prisco]

In my previous email “you” is generic, not specifically directed at
atheists. Rewording: People can always find apparently rational ways to
reject any evidence that they don’t want to accept.

On 2020. Apr 19., Sun at 11:31, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can always find apparently rational ways to reject any evidence that
> you don’t want to accept.
>
> On 2020. Apr 19., Sun at 9:37, Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 15:03, Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Strong beliefs (including atheism) come before rational thought and
>>> are much more powerful than rational thought. So there's no way to
>>> talk atheists or believers out of their convictions, and discussions
>>> are much more likely to end in name calling than in mutual
>>> understanding.
>>
>>
>> But atheists will accept the evidence that Zeus lives on Mount Olympus if
>> such evidence is provided; what reason do you have to suggest they would
>> not?
>>
>>> --
>> Stathis Papaioannou
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