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  Re: An example of confirmation bias?  
From: Darren New
Date: 5 Jul 2009 13:57:08
Message: <4a50e974$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> I've never been to a Christian wedding that says "What God has joined, 
> let no man put asunder."  

"""
Petitio principii. You assume that:

     * All christian marriages are caused by God.
     * God never allows two people to divorce.
"""

You're also pulling a straw man here, btw. It's not necessary that *no* 
Christians get divorced. Only that a statistically valid deviance exists 
between those married in the eyes of a God who doesn't want divorces and 
those married in sin.

I.e., it's the same bit as prayer. Surely if 50% of the Catholics with 
cancer who prayed for remission got better, and only 10% of the non-Catholic 
population got better from the same kind of cancer, you'd say "Hey, maybe 
the Catholics are on to something."  But when there's no difference at all, 
you kind of have to discount the effacy of prayer.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.


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