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Many of our ideas about the world are based more on feelings than facts, sensibilities than science, and rage than reality. We gravitate toward ideas that make us feel comfortable in areas such as religion, politics, philosophy, social justice, love and sex, humanity, and morality. We avoid ideas that make us feel uncomfortable. This avoidance is a largely unconscious process that affects our judgment and gets in the way of our ability to reach rational and reasonable conclusions. By understanding how our mind works in this area, we can start embracing uncomfortable ideas and be better informed, be more understanding of others, and make better decisions in all areas of life.
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Things get dicey with religion because dogma and faith often inform scholarship. For example, virtually every Catholic scholar will insist that Jesus was an only child, yet virtually all protestant scholars (and secular) understand that the Bible makes it clear that Jesus had siblings. When people choose their experts based on the conclusion they draw, this is showing confirmation bias. In addition, experts to conclude what they do based on dogma, faith, or ideology, are often making an appeal to false authority . I wouldn't say appeal to authority however, because there is no firm declaration that something is true or false; it is more of what a person believes. |
answered on Thursday, Aug 05, 2021 07:29:40 AM by Bo Bennett, PhD | |
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