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Originally Posted by MSD
You can't argue with a true believer, you can only produce facts to shield those around you from their bullshit.
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Sure.
My point was only that this mechanism is sociological and psycological and cannot be fought only with teaching and facts. He cannot be fought at all I think.
This professor obviously had more scientifical facts in his mind than what you can teach in school and college to anyone (I mean, an entire life of on-the-edge Scientific Research, is not exactly what you can teach to the avarage joe) and anyway refuses to watch at all the proofs he had to growth his religious unbelievable beliefs (Come On, Earth made by god 6 thousands years ago? Not even the Pope beliefs that anymore!!).
Before knowing him, I was thinking that this was the consequence of an "returning analphabetism" (we say in Italy), but now I think is also a matter of personal demands.
Ignorance must be fought, but this type of thinking will NEVER disappear becouse no metter how many proofs you bring or how many intelligent or educted a person can be:
If he need it to wake up smiling, he will think it.
And I see nothing so wrong with it...