<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/25/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adrian Tymes</b> <<a href="mailto:wingcat@pacbell.net">wingcat@pacbell.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
--- spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@comcast.net">spike66@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>> Ron Numbers makes the case that those polls which<br>> show a person believing mutually exclusive notions<br>> should be eliminated from the final score. He suggests
<br>> that this could result in most of the survey-returns being<br>> eliminated, but then the conclusions are much more evolution-<br>> friendly.<br><br>Possibility: there is a correlation between those who believe in logic,
<br>specifically the very possibility that evidence can disprove notions<br>and that said disproven notions should then receive less or no further<br>belief (depending on the strength of the argument against them), and<br>
those who believe in evolution.<br><br>We might take this as obvious or nonsensical. Logic exists, whether we<br>believe it or not. 1+1=2 no matter how much one may preach against it.<br>But this is not the mindset of everyone. Some believe that preaching
<br>that 1+1=3 is enough to make it so - and either it has not occurred to<br>them to try it, or they have rationalizations of why it has failed to<br>work every time it has been attempted (possibly backed up with accounts
<br>of it working for other people - entirely fictitious, but they may or<br>may not be aware of this, and for whatever reason they do not make much<br>use of science's error-correcting mechanisms for cases like this).</blockquote>
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Maybe they are thinking of rabbits.<br>
Or quantum theory. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I wonder what a survey focussed on belief in a logical, rational world<br>would turn up, especially if it looked for correlations with belief in
<br>science vs. religion (which could possibly be distilled to belief in<br>evolution vs. creationism).<br></blockquote></div><br>
Q: Do I believe in survival of Human consciousness after death?<br>
A: No<br>
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Q: Do I believe in ghosts?<br>
A: Yes.<br>
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Contradictory?<br>
Only if *you* make certain unspoken assumptions.<br>
<br>
Dirk<br>