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By contrast, faith—and theology more broadly—does not possess or employ a mechanism for falsification and appears only incidentally interested in observation. When it engages in observations, theology only attempts to confirm, however desperate the effort. In short, the essential tool of theology is confirmation bias (that is, starting with a theory first and working backward to fit the evidence with it), and so armed, it brazenly employs faith either as a means to apply more confidence to its cherished hypotheses than evidence will warrant or as a shield to protect that effort from the criticism it deserves. This renders faith a patently bad way to claim knowledge, and perhaps more tragically, an effort in furthering the delusions of those who employ it in an attempt to possess truth.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:54:35 +0000

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