Belief has nothing to do with facts, especially for the unbelievable facts.

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Belief has nothing to do with facts, especially for the unbelievable facts. In the article, "The Inevitability of Inevitable," author Stephen Pinker analyzes whether or not it is possible to be a disbeliever of any given factual claim. For example, the vast majority of the world's population believes in Jesus Christ as a savior. A few people don't.

They believe Jesus never existed at all. But some of the people who believe that Jesus didn't exist have never actually read the New Testament or any of the other books that describe him. They have been led to believe that he didn't exist by various episodes from television shows and movies, which have been made up entirely from whole cloth. Pinker notes that this is a special case of what is called a "God of the gaps" argument.

A God of the gaps argument is when someone tries to explain away a discrepancy between a fact and some hypothesis by inventing a new explanation for it, where the new explanation makes it fit better than does any existing explanation.

Source: My Ancestor Was An Ancient Astronaut

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