ChristianKl comments on Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 October 2007 01:59AM

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Comment author: Romashka 09 April 2015 12:09:12PM 0 points [-]

I did not downvote this, but I think whoever did meant it as 'actually, you are NOT entitled to believe in evolution'. (People who view evolution through the lenses of genetics and biotechnology and not, say, botany and zoology, intuitively seem to me less baffled by it - not always a good thing. You have to be as baffled as you possibly can, to seek out any weak spots at all.)

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 April 2015 12:35:55PM 0 points [-]

I think whoever did meant it as 'actually, you are NOT entitled to believe in evolution'.

What makes you think so?

Comment author: Romashka 09 April 2015 12:42:08PM 0 points [-]

Because 'entitled to believe' doesn't go well with critical thinking?