“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
