We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

The story of Noah is self-contradictory, uncorroborated by independent historical evidence, and is generally at odds with everything we know about our planet's geology, biology, and species diversity.

As we choose what we want and ignore the rest in a buffet just accept what you like from others and ignore the rest.

If there is a bias toward judicial supremacy, it's best that we know this now, in advance of a confirmation vote.

Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for them. No, we are emotional creatures who use value-based reasoning in conjunction with our rationality.