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Test Your Open-mindedness
- Do you resist admitting the possibility that a conservative approach to education is far more effective for students than a liberal one?
- If it were proven to your satisfaction that some idea you've been using to bolster a political argument was false, would you keep using that idea in your argument?
- Do you resist admitting that something you accepted for over a decade is, in fact, completely false?
- Do you resist the possibility that Hollywood values result in significant harm for those who believe in them, and to innocent bystanders?
- Do you think it is impossible that increased gun ownership reduces the rate of crime?
- When President Ronald Reagan told Mr. Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, would you have thought that it was politically impossible for the Berlin Wall to be torn down?
- Did you think, or still think, that the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") is impossible?
- Do you think that it is impossible that the Shroud of Turin is authentic?
- Do you think that there must be a purely material-based explanation (such as magnetism) for remarkable homing and migration behavior of birds and butterflies?
- Do you think that it is impossible for the speed of light to have been different in the past?
- Do you think that it is impossible to measure openmindedness?
- Do you think that evolution[1] must have occurred?
- Do you think that is impossible for the power of 2 in Newtonian gravity, whereby the gravitational force is proportional to 1/r2, to be more precise with an exponent that is slightly different from 2, such as a gravitational force proportional to 1/r2.00000001?
- Do you resist admitting that some things taught to you in school are completely false, and even known to be false by some responsible for the material?
- Do you deny that some widely required theories of science, such as the theory of evolution, may actually impede the progress of science?[2]
- Do you deny that the imposition of socialism and same-sex marriage on a nation could harm its competitiveness at international events like the Olympics?
- Do you refuse to consider the possibility that "experts" may not have all the answers, and that the best of the public may have valuable insights to which experts are blind?
- Do you think that if you read parts of the Bible years ago as a child, you can claim to "have read the Bible" and that you have no reason to read it regularly now?
- Do you believe that because the Earth's orbit and rotation are what they are now, they are guaranteed to remain stable for billions of years?
- Do you refuse to consider the possibility that Hebrews might have been authored by Jesus?
- â By "evolution" is meant the theory of evolution, especially universal common descent.
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- Back problems: how Darwinism misled researchers
- Backwardly wired retina âan optimal structureâ New eye discovery further demolishes Dawkins
- Biomimetics - Expert engineer eschews âevolutionary designâ
- Biometrics - Examples of Scientists copying nature
- Cutting out a useless vestigial argument
- More nails in the coffin of âjunk DNAâ
- The lingering death of junk DNA
- 15 questions that evolutionists cannot satisfactorily answer
- Questions for evolutions - Vox Day