“No one is immune to magical thinking”

“No one is immune to magical thinking” February 20, 2015

 

A modern image of an astrologer
Astronomer or astrologer?
Does it really make much difference?
(Click to enlarge.)

 

Militant atheists often deride religious believers as dominated by “magical thinking.”  Yet, as a very short article in the March 2015 issue of The  Atlantic reports, they themselves are, very likely, prone to precisely such “superstition”:

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-science-of-superstition/384962/

 

And you might enjoy this little item, as well:

 

http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2008/01/23/atheists-who-believe-in-astrol/

 

 


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