Inheriting their worldview from consensus or comfort, never having to earn it through actual thought.

  • BobbleBubble@retrolemmy.com
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    15 hours ago

    Isn’t it? I mean I haven’t read his stuff or otherwise cared that much but I thought that was the point.

    I really don’t know.

    In general I don’t quite understand the point of OP. How do you learn without learning?

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      10 hours ago

      Good on you for asking! Dawkins doesn’t prove there’s no God; he argues the idea isn’t necessary to explain reality. The burden of proof isn’t on him to disprove an unfalsifiable claim, it’s on those making the claim to provide testable evidence. That’s how critical thinking works.

      https://youtu.be/Qf03U04rqGQ?t=301

      As for “How do you learn without learning?” you don’t. But a lot of people confuse rote repetition (parroting Dawkins or the Bible) with understanding (grappling with the arguments themselves). One’s memorization; the other’s understanding.