CAVE LEVEL 2

Descent. Don’t be intimidated by the fallacies on this level. Learning these will help you spot mistakes in people’s reasoning—& maybe even your own!

Caring People Can Change Minds

Summary: Because I genuinely care, people almost never detach, shut down and declare us enemies. —Seth Andrews

Extracting Gods from the Gaps

Summary: One would think the 'God of the gaps' explanation of unexplained phenomena would have disappeared. —Richard Baldwin

Conditional Love

Summary: My love cannot be commanded, it cannot be threatened, & it cannot be provoked by my terror of eternal damnation. —Joshua Kelly

Religious Humility & Tolerance

Summary: Extraordinary claims really do require extraordinary evidence – & not just for the skeptic. —Raphael Lataster

Nudging The Precontemplator

Summary: This is where clear, nonthreatening explanations come in; followed by imploring the Socratic method of question & answer. —David C Smalley