mercredi 25 septembre 2013

Do secularists use science to convince fundamentalists?

There is a lot of evidence in social phychology and the human sciences in general that our behavior is not rational at all. Moreover, factors like loyality, culture, place of birth, ... are better predictors for our religious/non-religious behavior.



Secularists and atheïsts do not seem to use this knowledge from science to convince other people. They do not use the knowledge from social psychology that you cannot just change the minds of fundamentalists with rational arguments.



Why don't atheïsts/secularist humanists use our best sciences to use more 'scientific' methods in order to convince fundamentalists, in stead of using rational arguments. Human scientists know that rational arguments are not the best tools to convince someone else.



And I always wonder why secularist humanists, who are advocating scientific knowledge, believe in 'free will' and 'rationality', while science shows us that we don't have free will at all (Libet et al) and science shows us that most of our decisions are based on irrational motives. Most behavior or human thinking is a result of unconcious processes in the brain.





Other methods:

A method can be: ask moderate believers, who are well respected in a religious communicty to convince fundamentalists with methods from psychology. Such a method is: when a fundamentalist respects someone, he or she is more willing to accept some reasonable ideas form him or here.



A very radical atheïst argument, on the other hand (f.e. "the god delusion" from Richard Dawkins) can make a fundamentalist rather more determined.



So why do secularists do not use this knowledge from science or modern psychology to convince fundamentalists?





via JREF Forum http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=265838&goto=newpost

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