June 27, 2003

Believing Is Seeing

By DAVID P. BARASH

I know, I know, it's supposed to be the other way around: "Seeing is believing." In any event, let's imagine that instead of being visually oriented primates, we were, say, bloodhounds. In that case, the bromide might have been "Smelling is believing." Or if crickets, perhaps "Hearing is believing." For all we know, limpets (whose lives are spent clinging tenaciously to wave-battered rocks) have their own maxim, to the effect that "Touching is believing." The point is that sensory evidence

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