Why the Bible? (Religion)

by David Turell , Monday, September 15, 2008, 00:44 (5708 days ago) @ George Jelliss

This is exactly what is wrong a religious upbringing. First you choose what to believe, then you seek out evidence to confirm the belief and try to ignore anything that counts against it. I was brought up in the English empiricist tradition, as exemplified by science and the detective story, that you look at the evidence first and then you decide what you believe. - Not exactly, George. We all grow up with parents who, if religious, give us an introduction to their religion, really an indoctrination. Most stay with that result, but some of us do think and study and make other choices. I come from a Jewish family, not very religious, but as first-born male grandchild had a Bar Mitzvah. Later I became agnostic until I began my study of cosmology, particle physics and evolution. That you and I have come to different conclusions from (I assume) the same studies, in part relates to childhood teaching but also to adult logic.