<div><div dir="auto">You can always find apparently rational ways to reject any evidence that you don’t want to accept.</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On 2020. Apr 19., Sun at 9:37, Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 15:03, Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Strong beliefs (including atheism) come before rational thought and<br>
are much more powerful than rational thought. So there's no way to<br>
talk atheists or believers out of their convictions, and discussions<br>
are much more likely to end in name calling than in mutual<br>
understanding.</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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?</div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>
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