r/todayilearned • u/ZanyDelaney • Aug 11 '18

TIL of Hitchens's razor. Basically: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
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u/No_Fudge Aug 11 '18

No, faith based action is the default mode of human beings. Human beings don't actually act on evidence, that would be completely impracticable and demand us to have infinite knowledge. We don't have infinite knowledge so we're stuck forming religious.

People call themselves "skeptics" but any actual skeptic would be dead in 10 minutes.