ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Scopes Trial, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow
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Faith. belief, science: boggles lines and faith- tanya luhrmann"s nyt op ed boggle threshold: the level above which the mind boggles when faced with some new fact or report or idea . Praying in an ancient language you don"t understand is fine; praying in tongues (not a human language, but thought to be a spiritual one) anathema. A god who has a human son whom he allows to be killed is natural; a god with eight arms and a lusty sexual appetite is weird. - tanya luhrmann. But i think that the boggle line also tells us something about belief the boggle threshold tells us: how accepting we are; the consequences of faith. When we draw a line between the plausible and the ridiculous- our boggle line- i think we become more confident about the beliefs on the plausible side of the line . Faith asks people to consider that the evidence of their senses is wrong.
