Comments by "EebstertheGreat" (@EebstertheGreat) on "The Most Common Cognitive Bias" video.

  1. animationguy1000 The claim of religious people, as I understand it, is that God does have a sufficiently powerful effect on the world for us to discover it. Maybe it isn't enough to say we can prove he exists, but at least it's enough to convince some people. For example, stories about miracles he has performed are supposed to provide evidence. If we had no evidence whatsoever (as is the case for the Flying Spaghetti Monster), then it wouldn't even have occurred to people to worship him in the first place. Now, I am not religious, and I know not everyone feels this way about God, but surely few people have faith in things they feel they have no reason to believe whatsoever.
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  2. ***** I don't disagree with you, but scientific or not, it is considered evidence by the people themselves, and provides them justification for their beliefs. It doesn't matter whether or not that justification ought to be sufficient. There is a difference between something like Last Thursdayism which by definition can't have any evidence at all and something like the resurrection of Christ, which in principle could leave some traces behind, and which in fact is claimed and believed to have left some traces, such as the Gospels.
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