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To: Brumar89 who wrote (93969)	1/19/2005 1:27:53 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) of 108807

No, it isn't training. I think its wiring. There is an evolutionary advantage for someone to believe that the creek will continue to flow. There is also an evolutionary advantage to believe the creek will flow despite 2 or 3 years of drought. I think some of us have to trust in God that the creek will flow again after 10 years of drought. I wouldn't be one (never have been - decided at 10 years old that there was no "Master Puppeteer" controlling the mechanism). That is the type of belief we're discussing. I don't think we have any more or less choice about that than our gender or artistic ability. There are both kinds of belief (which differ in their degree of faith) and they both have their role in human society. The questioners (unwilling to stick it out in the faith game) break new ground and the non-questioners plow the same field or follow the same tradition hoping for a return to normal. There is lower affinity to science for the latter. Science really doesn't reward conformism or sticking it out with old methodologies that don't seem to work anymore. Religious systems can. All Nobel prizes are given for shaking the status quo, not affirming it.

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