Then be unconvinced. But if you write off an argument as “fantasy”, instead of going through the mandatory “theory which exhibits an order-of-epsilon chance of being true”, then it speaks of a bias in your mind.
I don’t mean to fall into But There’s Still A Chance, Right?; I believe that the LDS faith has exhibited much more than an order-of-epsilon chance of truth. But then, we have different opinions about the weights of our priors.
Religious texts are works of fantasy. That’s just the most parsimonious description, currently. It fits the known evidence and pays rent much better than the postulation of an omnipotent entity that acts only in vague, constrained, idiosyncratic, and generally worthless ways (along with other entities that find just as little if not less justification in the evidence). It would be “writing off” if I declared it to be the case a priori, but as I said above, I’ve seen the opposing arguments.
Then be unconvinced. But if you write off an argument as “fantasy”, instead of going through the mandatory “theory which exhibits an order-of-epsilon chance of being true”, then it speaks of a bias in your mind.
I don’t mean to fall into But There’s Still A Chance, Right?; I believe that the LDS faith has exhibited much more than an order-of-epsilon chance of truth. But then, we have different opinions about the weights of our priors.
Religious texts are works of fantasy. That’s just the most parsimonious description, currently. It fits the known evidence and pays rent much better than the postulation of an omnipotent entity that acts only in vague, constrained, idiosyncratic, and generally worthless ways (along with other entities that find just as little if not less justification in the evidence). It would be “writing off” if I declared it to be the case a priori, but as I said above, I’ve seen the opposing arguments.