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When a closer look is taken at the working of human nature, we begin to notice a reoccurring pattern. Whereas faith is often constructed based on a person's initial perception of a situation, it is this faith that, once finalized, goes on to limit perception of new situations, therefore resulting in a downward spiral of limited understanding. Many prominent examples of this gradual digression have presented themselves throughout history providing as support to the general statement ‘seeing conditions what we believe: believing conditions what we see' which I will discuss.

The majority of human opinion of ‘belief' is formulated based on personal experience to which we apply our own understanding. Generally, human creativity appears to be limited to facts that relate to information we have been told. For instance, when trying to create and image of an extra terrestrial life form, though we know that it is quite possible that it would not resemble a human in any way, our......

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