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Re: 45% of Americans believe that humans did not evolve [message #334856 is a reply to message #333436] Thu, 12 June 2008 07:44 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Heh, I actually did a paper on Rationality.

Take this into consideration as well. Whether or not the views you (and I mean the "you" who is reading this, and not a specific person) currently have. Are they (or at least one of them) rational?

Now, think back to a time when you thought differently than you do now. Were your thoughts at the time you had them rational? Do they still seem rational now?

Now, go back to the first question. Are the thoughts you have right now rational? Will they still be rational if you think differently in the future? (Take into consideration how you answered whether or not your past thoughts were rational).

If you thought your past thoughts were not rational (you believed in Santa, you thought you could trust a friend that now betrayed you, you changed your mind on a political stance, etc.) because you think differently now, what is to say the thoughts you currently have are rational if you know that at some point in the future, you may look back and think they are not as rational as you "once thought"?
 
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