No, I don't think so. I think stopping believing in things that aren't true is progress in itself & also facilitates social progress.https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/923145407034732544 …
Yes. As I said, I think this is a valid measure of progress. We progress when we become less wrong.
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How do you measure this? Without a destination in mind how do you measure positive movement against negative? Change isn't always good.
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In that case, I was talking about factual accuracy as a measure. Having more of that.
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Pretty hard to apply to religion generally.
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Well, yes. Disbelieving in them seems the most likely to be accurate.
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But by doing this we are abandoning the idea of becoming less wrong and just falling back on feelings.pic.twitter.com/sOlDzqAoYV
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What? Going with the probabilities and evidence is the opposite of this.
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Is there evidence and/or any way to define the probabilities?
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No. There is not yet any reason to consider the God claim a serious proposition.
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Sure. But that's not a distinct argument. And it's also an argument *for* adopting religious Judaism, depending on your premises ;)
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It's an argument re: progress. We once thought disease was spread by miasmas. Now we don't. This is progress.
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Agreed.
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