Week6, Beyond Belief 7

I found the lecture presented by Mahzarin Banaji interesting becauseshe sends her point across by demonstrating the images of the twotables. Basically what she is trying to get across is that the humanmind will only believe and can only believe in things and issues thatare common and we are comfortable with. For example, thedemonstration about the tables is that the table on the left lookscompletely different to the table on the right, but in reality bothtables are the same shape, size and color, just that the illusion isnot allowing the mind to think and identify them as being the same.Banaji states "minds operate in ways of being biased." I think thatthe human mind can definitely be extremely biased in many areas,especially in the areas of identifying humans. Just because someonelooks totally different from someone else, does not mean that theyshould be labeled as different. The color of our skins does not makeus different from being Caucasian, Mexican, and African Am, Asian orany other races out there. We are all human beings and yet society'sbiases get mixed up and confused. We all have the same type ofblood running through our veins and it's composed of the sameelements.I think in order to view issues such as biases, people need to thinkoutside the bubble to realize that being different is not so badafter all. So why is religion and science such an important topic ofdiscussion? I think it is important because biases are commonly usedand neither one wants to accept that they are related in someway toone another. There is a possibility that both can probably come toan agreeing conclusion that religion and science work the same way,just with different ideas and theories.