Skeptics and True Believers

Skeptics and true believers In the first chapter, Raymo started talking about his childhood. He mentioned the fact that the children believe whatever they said. In this chapter Raymo explains how to make people proud that they are growing their children, and in a sense, peolpe holds an incredible child's ability. True believers "absolutely in manufacturing that can not be ascertained with certain experiences ..." (13), skeptics always "watch over the solid reality" (14). For example, Raymo uses the Turin shroud. This is just a linen with a similar person (some believe that this person is Christ).

Raymo, Chet, SKEPTICS, and TRUE BELIEVERS - an exciting connection between science and religion (Walker and Company, New York, 1998). I read this article in December 1999. Raymo is a professor of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College, a scientific column of Boston Globe. I generally love this book, but I believe that "real believers" are a bit ignorant, foolish, believe in ancient superstitions, "skeptics" realize the truth, Raymo says . This is not a "connection between science and religion" - it sounds like he said that he should almost admit defeat with wrong religion. However, despite this feeling, this book has some good parts.

First of all, in the world of philosophy, there are skeptics and relativists. For a variety of reasons, they refused to accept the possibility of objective and genuine answers to philosophical questions. Skeptics believe that philosophical questions may have a real answer, but we insist that we can not know the exact fact about the problem. On the other hand, the relativists believe that there is no real answer to any philosophical problem. They believe the claim of truth is always related to personal or social beliefs; this certainly plays a role in the topic of cultural relativism.

For skeptical investigations, believers can always make unconfirmed provisional explanations of conflicts of faith. This is certainly true, is not this skeptical criticism of supernatural phenomena? After all, have you heard how many times the "real believer" says that the media did not pass the control test because the skeptics caused negative vibration. Nicholas Humphrey also reported that supernaturalists proposed a negative theory of ESP with a leap of his excellent beliefs. ! It seems that religious believers are trying to save their important myths. A skeptical group can not demand any of its members, and should not do so again, to provide a belief (such as not believing in God). But we do not ask for a sacred cow