http://www.bodhipaksa.com/archives/more-on-conservative-psychology random thoughts of a western buddhist Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:43:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bodhipaksa.com/archives/more-on-conservative-psychology/comment-page-1#comment-50890 bodhipaksa Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:14:14 +0000 http://www.bodhipaksa.com/?p=683#comment-50890 There's just so much of that stuff over here that it's bewildering. But there's a whole culture of delusion with ready answers to help people dismiss evolution, and because they're brought up steeped in that culture it's not surprising that they do. There’s just so much of that stuff over here that it’s bewildering. But there’s a whole culture of delusion with ready answers to help people dismiss evolution, and because they’re brought up steeped in that culture it’s not surprising that they do.

]]> http://www.bodhipaksa.com/archives/more-on-conservative-psychology/comment-page-1#comment-50853 Dassini Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:34:38 +0000 http://www.bodhipaksa.com/?p=683#comment-50853 This business about refutation strengthening convictions reminds me of something I saw recently. Richard Dawkins was talking to creationists about evolution versus the creationist stance and one woman was adamant that there was absolutely no scientific proof of evolution. At the time I didn't get it, how could she hold that view? Bill Hicks liked to represent the idea that dinosaurs were put on the earth by God to test our faith.... This business about refutation strengthening convictions reminds me of something I saw recently. Richard Dawkins was talking to creationists about evolution versus the creationist stance and one woman was adamant that there was absolutely no scientific proof of evolution. At the time I didn’t get it, how could she hold that view? Bill Hicks liked to represent the idea that dinosaurs were put on the earth by God to test our faith….

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