I have many colleagues in the IT industry who have a decided distaste for religious belief.
This is quite understandable because the IT industry attracts people who are more inclined to rely on deduction. Deduction involves applying a general premise to a specific observation in order to reach a logical conclusion. A general premise might be, for example, that "all autonomous vehicles use advanced sensor technology" which you apply to a specific observation that "Tesla's self-driving cars are autonomous vehicles", leading you to a logical conclusion: "Tesla's self-driving cars use advanced sensor technology".
In contrast, for everyday life and religious belief, we are all more reliant on a different but equally valid form of reasoning, known as induction.
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