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Sam Harris - On Calling Out Religion, Death

BicycleRepairMan says...

>> ^jonny:
As you mentioned, the amount of evidence required to sustain a belief is partially dependent upon the nature of the belief. So, for instance, how much evidence do you require to believe that a painting is beautiful? Do you trust your own eyes when everyone else is telling you different?



That wouldn't require evidence at all. It's subjective opinion, or reactions inside my brain to what I'm seeing. I also accept the view that perception of beauty is indeed a real, material reaction, entirely non-supernatural in origin. Studies show this all the time, scientist can measure brain activity when showing different faces, pictures etc, and different parts of our brain "lights up", in the same way as when we taste things etc. Of course we dont know exactly how the brain does all this, but thats why we keep working on it, and its very exciting. But I do not see how all this relates to a divine presence. Infact, it shows the opposite.

It shows that when you fall in love , there is no fat little flying baby shooting you with love-arrows, even if it feels that way. Thats because your brain is messing with you. The same can be said for the people who loves Jesus more than themselves or their own kids, its not because Jesus is God, but because they believe he is God. Often this belief can reinforce the belief itself, as I said previously, and as is evident in cindercone's posts, this is a fallacy that they completely miss.

If you believe love to be some kind of spiritual "force", independent of our brains and all material existence, I suppose the same thing applies, when you feel love, it confirms for you the existence of these supernatural phenomena, including the ever-elusive "higher power".

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A Dove, Symbol of Peace, Gracefully Takes Flight and...uh-oh

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