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【正文】 potential to the future of humankind. V. Supplementary Reading B T L E W To be continued on the next page. The problems with beliefs by Jim Walker Lesson 6Groundless Beliefs V. Supplementary Reading Throughout history, humankind has paid reverence to beliefs and mystical thinking. Organized religion has played the most significant role in the support and propagation of beliefs and faith. This has resulted in an acceptance of beliefs in general. Regardless of how one may reject religion, religious support of supernatural events gives credence to other superstitions in general and the support of faith (belief without evidence), mysticism, and miracles. Most scientists, politicians, philosophers, and even atheists support the notion that some forms of belief provide a valuable means to establish truth as long as it contains the backing of data and facts. B T L E W To be continued on the next page. Lesson 6Groundless Beliefs V. Supplementary Reading Belief has long bee a socially acceptable form of thinking in science as well as religion. Indeed, once a proposition turns to belief, it automatically undermines opposition to itself. Dostoyevsky warned us that those who reject religion will end by drenching the earth in blood. But this represents a belief initself. Our history has shown that the blood letting has occurred mostly as a result of religions or other beliefsystems, not from the people who reject them. B T L E W To be continued on the next page. Lesson 6Groundless Beliefs V. Supplementary Reading However, does rational thinking require the adherence to beliefs at all? Does productive science, ethics, or a satisfied life require any attachment to a belief of any kind? Can we predict future events, act on data, theories, and facts without resorting to the ownership of belief? This paper attempts to show that, indeed, one need not own beliefs of any kind or express them in human language to establish scientific facts, predict fut
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