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What would you do if they disproved the virgin birth?; ... would it change your mind?
Topic Started: Apr 27 2010, 12:26 PM (572 Views)
Luke's Dad
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jon-nyc
Apr 28 2010, 03:33 AM
Piano*Dad
Apr 28 2010, 03:25 AM
As I'm sure many of our more right-leaning friends here would gleefully point out, many environmentalists seem equally capable of twisting evidence to fit a belief system.
You say that as if you aren't one of our right-leaning friends gleefully pointing it out.
My perception (as one of those right leaning friends) is PD is more in the middle than most anybody else on here, with the possible exception of R2.

At least, I haven't seen him at any of the meetings.
Edited by Luke's Dad, Apr 28 2010, 04:12 AM.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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Piano*Dad
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Jon .... Jon .... Jon, did you get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?

Are you honestly associating me with the "global warming is just a liberal myth" and "Al Gore is the root of all evil" school of thought around here? If so, you haven't been paying much attention.

Actually, I rarely post in religion threads (religion broadly construed). I do remember a thread not too too long ago in which one of our members (I can't recall who) tried valiantly to defuse some of the wild claims swirling around after the climategate debacle at that UK university. I think that was the last 'warming' thread I posted in, and I tried to offer some support for his POV.
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Piano*Dad
Apr 28 2010, 04:16 AM
Are you honestly associating me with the "global warming is just a liberal myth" and "Al Gore is the root of all evil" school of thought around here?
No, of course not.


Back to your original point, about strong dogmas that motivate people, I'm surprised you didn't mention the more, say, committed efficient market theorists. You must run into those types on a regular basis.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Indeed, but the argument is usually about the fine points of theory and testing. If a person is quite well versed in both, I tend to give their 'beliefs' the benefit of the doubt. I may disagree with them, as they do with me on many points, but I suspect they are quite capable of changing their mind based on the same mathematics and statistics that I understand.
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Some of the most surprising (not to say egregious) claims I've run into involve trying to shoehorn events like the 87 crash into an EMH view of the stock market.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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It's not my area of study, so my views on the EMH are no better than any amateur's, but I would tend to agree.
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Apr 27 2010, 01:38 PM
I don't see the problem. I was born a virgin. Wasn't everybody?
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Jon & Dad....

This is fun to read - keep going!
How you durrin?
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