12/07/2010, 12:52 am
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#209
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Lint Miner
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: New Zealand.
Posts: 2,735
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Quote:
Originally Posted by taumel
Just one thought about faith generally and why faith is more attractive than knowledge:
Knowledge is very inelastic and also very difficult to acquire. If i want to know what someone else knows, then i have to learn this. If i want to believe what someone believes, then i only have to believe this. This needs only the willingness but little work, and setbacks are virtually nonexistent because beliefs of course aren't subjected to the fundamental theorem of falsifiability.
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So easier is better?
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