Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
Because they believe. You can not prove belief.
If you could logically and scientifically prove it, most folks would not call that a myth, they would call it a scientific proof.
Note: a scientific proof is not absolute. Math proofs can be absolute. This is not classical physics, Newton's law, etc. are acknowledged as true, but only usually. The quantum physics dudes break large parts of classical physics. But we still say that F = MA
I think i can try to say, you are much more near to absolute truth!
But i got following quote from Bertrand Russell who says:-
What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
As Albert Einstein gave proof, about 'belief can be prove' in
Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God.
So i think, his theory also base on
Assumption.
[ September 14, 2008: Message edited by: Mandar Khire ]