Dan has really hit his stride these past few years, I've enjoyed all his content he's put out. This is another fine addition. I watched the whole thing, and it's a great piece that does an...
Dan has really hit his stride these past few years, I've enjoyed all his content he's put out. This is another fine addition. I watched the whole thing, and it's a great piece that does an excellent job laying out how insane Carl Baugh is even to other creationists.
Back when I was still an avid Christian, I encountered some videos by "Dr Dino" (Kent Hovind). I was excited that someone was doing actual scientific research to prove the things I already believed. Ah, what an idiot I was then.
Sadly, there's a still a ton of pseudo-science going on convincing people of the wrong stuff. It's a horrible practice. Flat Earth and UFO's to name a few.
Sadly, there's a still a ton of pseudo-science going on convincing people of the wrong stuff. It's a horrible practice.
I think that a lot of the time things we dismiss as bad faith is actually blind faith. They have something they believe in so strongly that they have the need to reinforce that belief in others....
I think that a lot of the time things we dismiss as bad faith is actually blind faith. They have something they believe in so strongly that they have the need to reinforce that belief in others. That often gets transferred to other ideas. Dan mentioned, for example, people holding on to fundamentalism because it was the justification for cruel social structures like slavery and Jim Crow laws. If they admitted that the Bible wasn’t literally true it would mean that their image of themselves as good people would break down. So therefore they need the Bible to be literally true. Without it they literally lose themselves.
Dan has really hit his stride these past few years, I've enjoyed all his content he's put out. This is another fine addition. I watched the whole thing, and it's a great piece that does an excellent job laying out how insane Carl Baugh is even to other creationists.
Back when I was still an avid Christian, I encountered some videos by "Dr Dino" (Kent Hovind). I was excited that someone was doing actual scientific research to prove the things I already believed. Ah, what an idiot I was then.
Sadly, there's a still a ton of pseudo-science going on convincing people of the wrong stuff. It's a horrible practice.
Flat Earth and UFO's to name a few.
I'm 30 minutes in and it's sooo good. And the animation at the beginning as an intro is phenomenal!
I think that a lot of the time things we dismiss as bad faith is actually blind faith. They have something they believe in so strongly that they have the need to reinforce that belief in others. That often gets transferred to other ideas. Dan mentioned, for example, people holding on to fundamentalism because it was the justification for cruel social structures like slavery and Jim Crow laws. If they admitted that the Bible wasn’t literally true it would mean that their image of themselves as good people would break down. So therefore they need the Bible to be literally true. Without it they literally lose themselves.
If only we could indoctrinate people into believing this. The world would be a much better place.