Carson isn’t anchored to reality

Ben Carson demonstrates that you can be adept at memorizing oodles of facts about anatomy and physiology, can learn to do complicated things with your hands and can even graduate from medical school without learning much about critical thinking.

I suppose he could be correct about the pyramids making a nice place to store seven years worth of grain, but shouldn’t the views of archaeologists count for something?

Quotes in the Washington Post from Carson’s books describe 11 ways that God has supposedly intervened in his life. He claims that his prayers led God to stop the bleeding of one patient and restart another’s heart in surgery. This thinking follows the rule, “If I can’t explain something, that means God did it.”

Answered prayers about more mundane events such as having his stolen passport returned, finding $10 for bus fare and getting to view lots of really cool animals on a safari remind me of the growing practice of athletes giving God credit for victories over their (I suppose, less righteous) opponents.

Will voters care about Carson’s post hoc, ergo propter hoc logical fallacies or his West Point scholarship fabrication? Don’t we deserve candidates more firmly anchored to reality?

Steven Heaps

Spokane Valley