Sentences with phrase «fit belief concepts»
Once we form beliefs and make commitments to them, we maintain and reinforce them through a number of powerful cognitive biases that distort our percepts to fit belief concepts.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ Not exact matches
It is a call for like - minded people of like - faith to UTILIZE the religions freedom established by our forefathers to vote into office a person who... according to our shared beliefs... fits in with our concept of what makes a person «honest, forthright, [and has] a healthy vision for the nations future & its citizens.»
He shows that this is similar to Chesterton's approach and W.V.O. Quine's argument that «the only valid test of a belief is whether it fits into a web of connected beliefs that accords with our experience of the whole» (p. 63 - I would think that Newman's concept of the «Illative Sense» would dovetail with this.)
Once belief in God is supported in terms of «empirical fit,» it is legitimate to expand concepts relating to God in terms of models derived from interpersonal relations.
PDX — It doesn't take a Genius to realize from my statements that i have read things other than the Bible you moron i have spent many hours reading and listening to scientists about their theories on the big bang, i have listened to ideas from the most revered scientists including Hawking and others, and they all admit that there are holes in their theories, that nothing fully explains their big bang theory, the physics doesn't add up let alone the concept, there are plenty of scientists hard at work trying to make the numbers fit and the theory hold weight but if you ask any of them they can not give you the answers and the reason being... there are none, the theory doesn't work, If by the observable laws of Physics, Matter in this Universe can not be created or destroyed, you can only change its state, i.e. solid to liquid, to gas... to energy... There is no explanation for how an entire reality full of Matter can be created out of nothing... Scientists know this... idiots that are atheists and simply would rather NOT believe that their lives and actions they take within their lifespan are being witnessed by an Omnipotent God do not WANT to believe... but Your belief in God does not change whether or not he exists you will be judged.