Here's part of my Medium response to a conservative...
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Of course, in order to be a conservative, you must, by definition, have a natural aversion to science. Which is really strange given that one of the very best stories in the Bible is all about science. The Israelites weren’t quite sure whether Baal or God was the real god. So Elijah devised a simple test. He would pray to God, the prophets of Baal would pray to Baal, and whichever god responded with fire would be the real god.
Why did it matter whether Baal or God was the real god? It mattered because, if you’re going to make significant sacrifices to a god, you actually want even greater blessings in return. Otherwise, your sacrifices are simply a waste. The Bible isn’t a fan of waste. Nobody is a fan of waste. Even liberals aren’t a fan of waste. They hate getting ripped off just as much as the next person.
Nowadays nobody who is truly anybody debates whether God or Allah or Shiva or Buddha is the real god. Instead, the significant people, the people who actually matter, such as the Nobel prize winners, debate whether the Visible Hand or the Invisible Hand is the real god.
Do we get more blessings from the Visible Hand or from the Invisible Hand? Do we get more blessings when people decide for themselves how to spend their money or when that decision is made for them? This is the real question. But you really aren’t asking it. Instead, you’re going on and on and on about things that are entirely irrelevant to reality.
The reality is that we currently allow a small group of people (politicians) to spend a huge chunk of everybody’s money (taxes). This is the Visible Hand. Except, where’s the scientific support for the Visible Hand? There is none.
Are you willing to test your belief in the Visible Hand? If not, then you have a very big problem. Because even the prophets of Baal were willing to test their belief in Baal. At least they were willing to scientifically determine how well their beliefs corresponded with reality. As the story goes, their beliefs were unfounded and they were all slaughtered.
If your belief in the Visible Hand turns out to be unfounded then you really don’t have to be worried about being slaughtered. Science has made some progress since the Bible days.
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