From: theirony2013@gmail.com   
      
   On 2026-01-04 22:39, Steven Douglas wrote:   
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   > JTEM  posted:   
   >> On 1/4/26 11:18 PM, Mike wrote:   
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   >>> How can a person be so delusional when they know the evidence?   
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   >>>    
   >>>   
   >>> Short answer: because knowing evidence is not the same as integrating it.   
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   >> 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.   
      
      
   Save a step - Carl Sagan   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKF25dtcpUg   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)