June 10th, 2008 Posted in Psychology

Awesome quote

Another nugget from a chapter preface in Science and Sanity:

“Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.”
Bell, E. T.

In other words, when people don’t know they jump to conclusions.  Such is the case with evolution vs creation. We just don’t know at the moment, and to rule either out is to make a foolish mistake. It’s ok to not know for the time being.

Evolutionary Psychology is especially guilty of “feasting on shadows”, jumping to wild conclusions about how we have ended up preferring certain things or behaving in certain ways, with no testable hypotheses…