The Mind, Illusion and the Need for Science

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The Mind, Illusion and the Need for Science By Jonathan Lomax

Why Do People Believe Strange Things?

Gallup Poll 1990 1236 Adult Americans Astrology Extrasensory Perception Witches Aliens Have Landed on Earth Atlantis Dinosaurs and Humans Alive Together Noah’s Flood Communication with the Dead Ghosts Had a Psychic Experience 52% 46% 19% 22% 33% 41% 65% 42% 35% 67%

Chance and Self Importance

Lethal disease effects one in ten thousand people. Medical test is 99% accurate.

Association

Hope Springs Eternal

Creationism

The balance argument. The either or argument. The 2nd law argument. The religion argument. The disagreement argument. The microevolution argument. The transitional fossils argument

THE HITLER FALLACY

Psychics

Alternate Medicine

What’s the problem?