From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   JTEM  posted:   
   > On 1/4/26 11:18 PM, Mike wrote:   
   >   
   > > How can a person be so delusional when they know the evidence?   
   > >   
   > >    
   > >   
   > > Short answer: because knowing evidence is not the same as integrating it.   
   >   
   > Cognitive dissonance   
      
   That's what it takes to convince yourself that our   
   existence in our world could have possibly happened   
   all by itself, without a Creator. To imagine in one's   
   mind that all the design that is evident in our solar   
   system -- or in our DNA -- to have to mold one's mind   
   into believing all that design could happen without a   
   Creator takes cognitive dissonance to an extreme degree.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)