In the Mind of a Fish

Now that I've told the whole store about my thoughts of faith in the speaker, I don't know if I am not going to lose some steam on this subject. But, I will give it a try anyhoo.

The speaker seems to have some sort of authority or special knowledge about fishes that we humans don't have. Those things give the speaker an aura of authority that gives the listener an out when it comes to accepting or rejecting things it says. After all, why would it say things that need to be rejected? Does it really matter if the speaker thinks the fish think? Or does it really matter that we think the speaker thinks?

This believing something that is unbelievable under normal circumstances, is a kind of faith. It is a trust in the speaker because we assume the speaker is just reporting the truth as it was created to do and that truth is scientifically verifiable and can be trusted as well. This is the kind of faith that relies entirely on the source of the information we are trusting. The source of the information isn't really the speaker. The speaker was just saying what it was told. The real source of the information given to use are the people who study and get paid to research these animals. We trust that these people aren't going to mislead us because they are trained scientific professionals and we all kind of put stock in those three words here in the US of A.

This, of course, is the same faith that people have when they believe that the sky is falling because we feed our cows to much grass, or that the earth has never ever been as warm as it is now and that's because we live in houses. Even though these things are really nothing more than superstition, people are adamant about them. Even people we would think should know better because they have had very expensive educations.

But, when it comes to this kind of faith, there is no amount of expensive education that will keep us from believing.