25 August 2004 at 06.40.26 ZuluTime

Re: It says all that?

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Posted by Liz Cornett [61.30.47.21 - 61-30-47-21.static.tfn.net.tw] on 25 August 2004 at 06.40.26 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: It says all that? posted by Baron Greenback on 26 February 2003 at 00.49.56 ZuluTime:

fioricet ...Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an
     inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth. Most notably I have
     ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old. Well, I
     haven't ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected it.
     There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between
     prejudice and postjudice. Prejudice is making a judgment before you have
     looked at the facts. Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards. Prejudice
     is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious
     mistakes. Postjudice is not terrible. You can't be perfect of course; you
     may make mistakes also. But it is permissible to make a judgment after you
     have examined the evidence. In some circles it is even encouraged.
     - Carl Sagan, The Burden of Skepticism, Skeptical Enquirer, Vol. 12, pg. 46
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