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comment by Dala
Dala  ·  2861 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does Poor Understanding of Physical World Predict Religious and Paranormal Beliefs?

My thought on this is that many people who have a high level of religious/paranormal belief give up their understanding of the physical world in order to minimize cognitive dissonance and also why try to understand physics/the water cycle when 'God's got it'?