@jca I think people may like to back up their logic. If we search enough, we’ll find something to back it up.
Yes, something like that. If a person takes a position, maybe one on the fringe like climate change, or cell phone use causing brain cancer, even with no smoking gun, they will search high and low expecting to find validation to their belief, even if they have to bend what they find to make it fit what they believe. Somewhat like those people that go hunting for Big Foot, they will surely find evidence pointing to a large biped being or such traveling through a particular forest, even if no one else can see the evidence without trying to see it, like seeing a tree in front of you or a large rock.
@zenvelo It’s like, one can always find a Bible verse to back up any position. So some people decide then go hunt through the Bible to find chapter and verse to support it. But most people don’t make up heir minds that way. But others read the Bible, and weigh the contradictions, and then decide.
Taking the idea that you said you were Christian on another thread, you would know that is a poor example as you cannot use the same methods for faith as mere facts. Just because one might seek a verse to confirm the 1st first they read, it is not to overthrow the 1st verse or the 1st verse was seen as not being true. As a whole, the Bible has no contradictions, which only happen when you don’t take the whole story like saying man cannot survive under water. That is a true fact, but if you went further and completed the sentence as in ”man cannot survive under water, however, through the use of submarines he can survive great depths in the ocean.”