I was asked a question the other day that I was almost sure I knew the answer to but after I gave the answer I felt the need to add 'I believe'. The questioner did not say anything about this but it made me think about it for a while. Why did I feel the need to add 'I believe' when I knew my answer was almost certainly true? It had been awhile since I had been asked about the subject and I wasn't completely 100% sure my was answer was true. So in essence I was guessing that my answer was correct and the 'asker of said question' took my answer as fact even though I said 'I believe' not it is fact for sure(like 2+2=4).
My question is why do we humans accept info on belief as fact?
Have we been conditioned to do so?
Is this our brains way of moving on to more important things such as survival?
If religion is a belief, why do we hold it so dear when it is only a guess without verifiable proof?
I just watched a movie on hbo about the dodo bird and ID vs evolution. All the people who backed ID said they could not understand how some things in this world could come to be without a designer. So they believed there must be a designer because there is no other way. (yet they forget we couldn't comprehend earthquakes until recently but that is for another thread
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Again, why do we humans but so much faith in a belief when it is best an educated guess? (and why do I find this subject so fasinating that I keep coming back to discuss?)
Have a great day all!