My Beliefs- GDR

Well obviously, I, like you, plan on the available facts, then make the best bet. What neither of us do is plan our day based on an un-evidenced belief about what we would like to be true regardless of the facts before us.You would not plan your picnic on a belief. You, like everyone else on the planet, would look out of the window, look at the forecast and then decide.What else in your life do you think you do purely on belief?

Not sure why this is in the news today because the original study seems to have been published in january, but biologists have been studying empathetic behaviour - consolation - in bonobo apes, finding rather a lot of it, discovering that it's innate and varies according to the physical closeness, age and relatedness to the distressed individual. BBC - 404: Not Found Is Tom whispering in bonobo ears too?Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.

Just thought you might be interested; but it's good to hear that you now accept the rational conclusion that morality is a naturally occurring phenomenon - so there is no requirement for any more supernatural whispering talk is there?

Name one that hasn't been blindingly obvious for thousands of years.

What?!There's nothing in that about addiction - it's just the usual religious obsession with sin.But even if it was about addiction why, ffs, wouldn't they know about it? There's nothing particularly difficult in spotting drunks, obsessives and addicts - the extent of their science was finding the devil to be the cause - clever huh?Sometimes I think the world is just friggin' bonkers.

I rarely do. Phat, that is just crazy - that's a description of what someone feels, which is then blamed completely wrongly on sin and evil. I'm merely pointing out to you the obvious fact that the bible is not a source of any scientific wisdom which was your claim.