@SamHarrisOrg to be fair, there is nothing intrinsic about atheism that says you need to be open to evidence.
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@BGossin@SamHarrisOrg nothing about liberal values requires openness to evidence either -
@OakParkAtheist@BGossin@SamHarrisOrg Guess I don't know what like real values are, since "open to evidence" I thought is surely a top one -
@OakParkAtheist@BGossin@SamHarrisOrg should read, "liberal values" not "real values"
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@SamHarrisOrg Indeed, I'm sure a poll on acceptance of evolution and climate change versus religiosity would inform the gentleman otherwiseThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@impossiblebones@SamHarrisOrg That’s because our culture now confuses “Liberal” as an identity and philosophical “liberalism”. -
@brentous@impossiblebones@SamHarrisOrg Right. Democracy is liberal. Most republicans I know firmly believe in liberal principles. -
@AndiWedekind@brentous@impossiblebones@SamHarrisOrg maybe a good idea to distinguish between classical liberalism and modern liberalism
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@SamHarrisOrg All 3 are precisely what we will get when we apply reason. Reason is the reliable connection.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@SamHarrisOrg when did being an atheist mean anything more than you don't believe in a godThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@SamHarrisOrg Atheism can also result from anger at religion, indoctrination, or just a lack of interest. It’s not necessarily rationality.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@SamHarrisOrg And the flip side: default skepticism of claims without evidence.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@SamHarrisOrg atheism is not associated with openness to evidence. But skepticism is and many atheists are skeptics.#latentvariables -
@matthewfacciani Is there research about the correlation of atheism to rationality (excluding those indoctrinated to atheism, e.g. Chinese)? -
@kAfir_mulHid several studies show a correlation between atheism and analytic thinking, but atheism doesn't *cause* rationality -
@matthewfacciani If anything, I think the causality would run the other way. In any case, Harris didn’t make a causal claim.
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