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https://i.imgur.com/Yul1eSW.png It looks like you think scientific evidence depends on belief. If that were the case the earth could viably be flat, s...

That's why my username is what it is; I predicted that what I underline, may be contrary to popular expression; i.e. contrary to what is generally "co...

Data shows that the only pre-requirement for scientific progress, is that people follow evidence. This means that regardless of belief, evidence must ...

You're going to have to repair your own mistakes.

People have been arguing that they don't contact the portion of belief that doesn't deal with evidence. However, people fail to see that belief doesn'...

The broadest meaning of belief, permits both consideration of evidence, but also, general ignorance of evidence. (And belief is not a contronym, so th...

Sapientia is exhibiting signs of what belief generally promotes; Sapientia is adhering to old mistakes while ignoring contrasting/valid data. One day ...

I had been debating for slightly longer than that, although that didn't matter when new evidence arose. (i.e. sometimes evidence or new data doesn't c...

It's not rocket science. ( ?° ?? ?°) Belief allows us to mostly ignore evidence, (so it promotes that we only barely consider evidence sometimes, whil...

Perhaps there is the probability that atheists will find abolishing beliefs easier to grasp, while theists will find it harder to do so. Some on these...

Exactly. The OP may look like a crackpot at first glance, or several glances, but when one actually slows down and looks at evidence, one may see that...

Refer to the sources, and see that belief generally permits ignorance of evidence.

Evidence (regardless of anybody's opinion or feelings) shows that science generally facilitates that evidence is considered.

Nowhere did I state that belief was passion. (What I said was regardless of any amount of passion or belief, unless evidence is prioritized, no progre...

You tried to propose the following quote, to supposedly attempt to equate non-belief/keeness on evidence, with belief: And that was shown to contrast ...

Yeah your statement above doesn't remove that unless evidence is prioritized, no amount of belief or passion delivers results.

I already demonstrated (from my initial exchange with you) that what I underlined contrasted your proposal; rather than seek data that agree with old ...

So you continue to ignore evidence. The evidence simply states that belief does not largely facilitate that evidence is considered. How in Bill Gates'...

That scientists believe on non-evidence, does not suddenly remove that science generally facilitates that evidence is considered. In fact, you've demo...

Remember belief generally permits that people adhere to old mistakes, and ignore contrasting evidence; i.e. belief generally facilitates that people l...

That statement of yours is demonstrably false, because scientific thinking has been less susceptible to evidence ignorance and evidence distortion, th...

If you constantly observe evidence, rather than only looking for data that agrees with your prior stance (as you propose above), you do what is contra...

The point is that beyond the philosophical definitions which you quoted above (on which there is no concensus) there exists experimental data on the o...

Don't forget this line: "There is, for example, no philosophical consensus on what belief is." Those are the "philosophical" descriptions referred to ...

How quickly did you "read" one of those papers? Here is a snippet you should consider: "Belief evaluation, even in the absence of frank pathology, has...

On the contrary, I underline that belief (which generally promotes ignorance of evidence) opposes scientific thinking (which generally promotes consid...

Look at cognitive science sources in the OP, like "A cognitive account of belief." or "Memory formation and belief”, or look at dictionaries or Wikipe...

Remember, that evidence doesn't depend on beliefs; scientific equations don't suddenly work because scientists chose to believe in them. It doesn't wo...

Yeah, just as belief generally prescribes, you proceed to ignore evidence that: Science does not generally permit that evidence is ignored. whereas Be...

@MindForged Note that this thread looked stupid to me too (for several days in fact), until I actually payed attention to evidence, and not my feeling...

Based on evidence, and not my feelings, belief tends to permit that people ignore evidence. The problem is probably that people feel we must be omnisc...

It's stupid when: you ignore that belief tends to facilitate that people generally ignore evidence. you ignore that scientific progress doesn't care a...

As you can see in the definitions you cited, none of them exclude the possibility to mostly ignore evidence; all the definitions you cited included so...

Notice the Merriam Webster definition refers to belief especially without proof, i.e. Deity aligned beliefs. (Words from Merriam's first definition of...

You don't need omniscience to avoid belief, you simply adopt scientific thinking, which is contrary to belief by definition. (Scientific thinking has ...

There is something that has enabled us to make progress without having access to all possible evidence. That thing is called the scientific method, wh...

There is no "conflation" there. (Please take a look at the dictionary and or Wikipedia on belief)

The thing about "empirical observations" is that they remain empirical, regardless of anybody's belief.

Notice that Newton is not known for his contributions to alchemy/religion, and in fact, if Newon did not invent things such as Calculus, and other sci...

As charleton says, there is no doubt that religion exists, however, this doesn't suddenly mean that religious doctrine is any evidence.

This makes no sense. Looks like you've ran out of arguments, given the evidence that I've laid out before you :)

And why would you need to believe in empirically observable things, like the body?

Yeah, that's not actual evidence. You can quickly see that religious "evidence" is not actual evidence, because religious stuff contradicts scientific...

You might feel that way, but I can't find any evidence that most beliefs are based on evidence. Instead, just like sources in the OP state, most belie...

Nope, I actually took a look in the dictionary, and alas, belief is defined to especially occur without proof or evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

Come on, it is empirically observed that religious beliefs generally don't care about evidence. It is very strange that people use the products of sci...

People don't have to be perfect/without mistake to avoid belief. Science is something that has for a long long time, been allowing us to constantly co...

Religious beliefs are not based on evidence, just like there's something called "Christian Science", which doesn't actually make it science.

Well something that allows people to mostly ignore evidence (namely belief), is actually counter to how humanity has progressed. Regardless of how muc...

Lawrence Krauss has something to say about "nothing".