Hi fellow agnostics and atheists. I enjoy watching NASA videos on Utube but there are aways the 'brain dead' comments by the conspiracy believers that it's all fakery. That the moon landings never happened and that the earth is flat ect. My take on all this is that these individuals are in a 'biblical mindset' in that as the world view as put forward by the Old Testament is the reality because the Bible is the 'word of God' so it's the true world view. In other words, these conspiracey theorists have a 'mindset' that belongs to the Bronze Age. They have never come to terms with the reality of the modern world and the view that science has given us about the Universe around us. Well, that's the conclusion that I've come to. What's yours concerning these people?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Most conspiracy theories I hear are laughable but I try to keep an open mind while I gather facts cause the powers that be are not afraid to lie cheat and steal. Paperwork proving that wars were started or we were manipulated to join by the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Americans has been declassified and they don't give a shit. What can we do now? Lee Harvey Oswald took a gun to the book depository and that is likely the extent of his involvement .
CaseyGoodwin
Level 4
Nov 25, 2017
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Mythbusters! They dedicated an episode to the moon landing, flat earth scholars. Debunked every conspiracy theory, easily. Great show
CaseyGoodwin
Level 4
Nov 25, 2017
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The more fundamentalistic and/or evangelical the person's religious beliefs, the more they disbelieve science as their beliefs involved too much magical, superstitious their thinking is. They are so committed to a fixed dogma that they live in a world of irrationality.
wordywalt
Level 9
Nov 24, 2017
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My mom once made me watch a documentary that supposedly "exposed" the moon landing hoax. She's not a flat earther but she is a huge conspiracy nut. She tried to excuse her real intentions (i.e. to indoctrinate me) by saying "hey I'm not saying it was hoaxed but it's something to think about."
She's done the same thing with 9/11 conspiracies, JFK assassination conspiracies, Sandy Hook conspiracies, the HAARP project, the Denver Airport, the NWO/Freemasons/Illuminati, and the claims that the Clintons have ordered the assassinations of dozens of people. The problem is that her standard of evidence is much smaller than mine; she's content to make logical fallacies (and gets upset when I point them out) and is fine with accepting claims based on very tenuous, circumstantial evidence.
wjwolfe
Level 5
Nov 24, 2017
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My experience has been they're not so much anti science as they are anti-government and NASA is just another another government agency. I read somewhere there was a Common Thread in conspiracy theorists I can't remember what it was something about secrecy and Power and the little guy.
MichaelBaribeau
Level 5
Nov 24, 2017
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Yes Michael. That is definitely another way to look at it. However, the 'flat earth' idea is certainly straight out of the biblical 'mindset' "The bible teaches that the earth is a enormous flat disc and as the bible is the 'word of God' and cannot be wrong, then the earth must be a flat disc.
True. I think that would be the Young Earth Creationists.
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