   ← How the Web is killing faith  Alan4discussion's Avatar Jump
to comment 8 by Alan4discussion  I thought this comment on the
link summed up xtian theist thinking on "scientific data", and
"evidence"!  SimonTemplar - As you must know, the sufficiency of
convincing evidence will likely be different for different
people.  Consider the global warming debate as an example.
Learned, scientific folk on both sides of the debate come to
completely different conclusions based on the same scientific
data. One side is correct and the other is wrong yet they both
lay claim to the factual high-ground of truth.  .. with those
who don't know what "evidence is" unable to tell the misleading
tripe from the evidenced claims, or pseudo-scientific posers
from numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers, - thinking,
"there are two only sides" to the simplistic perception of the
debate in their heads!  The rest of us choose one side or the
other largely on faith.  It's how they think .. ... and get it
wrong time and again!! Faith a