Obsessive Acts an Religious Practices

I have always been fascinated at how psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud looked at the world. I've been reading one of his books, Character and Culture, which is a compilation of his articles in 1950s and early 1960s. He was a brilliant writer. I liked his writing, in as much as the psychoanalysis content. There's one article however that struck me most and it is entitled Obsessive Acts and Religious Practices. This chapter is available for you to read or...

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FALLACIES: Why People are Wrong

YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID. Here's a guide to most common logical fallacies. STRAWMAN You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack. By exaggerating, misrepresenting, or just completely fabricating someone's argument, it's much easier to present your own position as being reasonable or valid. This kind of dishonesty not only undermines rational discourse, it also harms one's own position because it brings your credibility into...

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Science is not about certainty

"The very expression "scientifically proven" is a contradiction in terms. There is nothing that is scientifically proven. The core of science is the deep awareness that we have wrong ideas, we have prejudices. Science is not about certainty. Science is about finding the most reliable way of thinking at the present level o knowledge. In fact, not only it's not certain, but it's the lack o certainty that grounds it. Scientific ideas are credible not because they are sure, but because they are the ones that have survived all the possible...

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Why People Do Not Believe in Evolution (and why they should)

1. If humans came from apes, why aren’t apes evolving into humans? Humans, apes, and monkeys are only distant evolutionary “cousins.” We come not from apes but from a common ancestor that was neither ape nor human that lived millions of years in the past. In fact, during the last seven million years many human-like species have evolved; some examples include Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Homo neanderthalensis. All of these went extinct at different...

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