ext_2941 ([identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ciphergoth 2008-08-04 07:12 am (UTC)

Well, I don't have quite the same reaction to the things people say in other debates where I have strong opinions, though I know it may seem that I do. To be honest, I keep half-expecting to discover that you all have much better arguments for your beliefs, and all I have to do is ask the question in the right way and I'll find out something that makes it make sense to me; I do go over the arguments I'm presented with to see if there's some sense that I missed. But after all this time I feel like I've given the "arguments are stronger than I think" hypothesis all I can and it's just not working out, and the "very smart people can advance very bad arguments if the psychology lines up" explanation is just one I'm going to have to accept.

And I can at least assign different merits to different arguments. The "fine-tuning" argument, for example, I can really see how someone could fall for that; it's taken me a while to work out the 30-second refutation to that one.

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