Saturday, December 07, 2019

Belief and evidence


Latest Jesus and Mo cartoon illustrating the uncomfortable truism that there's always a "bigger fish". I find it interesting that many people simply can't cope with the idea that the number of people who believe something (in itself) says nothing about the validity of the claim, it's only evidence that counts. When you have evidence for something you don't need belief, it's a simple equation, belief is never evidence but evidence (or lack of) should encourage belief, this isn't a new idea of course, philosophers figured it out centuries ago the rest of us are just catching up..

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