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Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 7 of 8

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Change Happens The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.   –Antisthenes My parents, as I’ve said before, were three for six in terms of producing believing children.  All of us accepted … Continue reading

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Christian Belief through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 6 of 8

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How Beliefs Resist Change The Jesuits have a saying sometimes attributed to Francis Xavier, “Give me the child until he is seven, and I will give you the man.”  The Jesuits were a tad optimistic, but ample research on identity … Continue reading

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Christian Belief through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 5

How Viral Ideas Hook Us Did you know that Temple Baptist Church was built on land that sold for 57 cents, the amount saved by a little girl that had been turned away from their Sunday school?   Did you hear … Continue reading

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Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 4

The Born-Again Experience “. . . I prayed harder and just then I felt like everything I was saying was being sucked into a vacuum.  When I stood up, I felt like thin air; I had to brace myself.  I … Continue reading

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Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 3

I Know Because I Know On a warm afternoon in June, two men have appointments with a psychiatrist.  The first has been dragged to the office by his wife, much to his irritation.  He is a biologist who suffers from … Continue reading

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